"exotic to European readers. The Worrals series was very successful in the UK (published by the Lutterworth Press) and France (Presse de la Cite) and translated into several other languages. Most titles included line illustrations by the British artist Leslie Stead. The first three Worrals books were republished in 2013 by IndieBooks with new illustrations by US graphic novelist Matt Kindt. There were three short stories featuring Worrals written by Johns: Worrals Flight Officer Joan Worralson, better known as ""Worrals"", is a fictional character created by W. E. Johns, more famous for his series of books about the airman Biggles."
"most of the latter with a common setting and time. These included novels about a woman pilot in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Flight Officer Joan Worralson, better known as ""Worrals"". Geoffrey Trease and Rosemary Sutcliff brought a new sophistication to the historical adventure novel. Philip Pullman in the Sally Lockhart novels and Julia Golding in the Cat Royal series have continued the tradition of the historical adventure. An important aspect of British children's literature has been comic books and magazines. Amongst the most popular comics have been ""The Dandy"" and ""The Beano"". Important early magazines or story papers"
"Victoria Holmes Victoria ""Vicky"" Holmes is an English author. She is better known as Erin Hunter, a pseudonym under which she and many others wrote the New York Times Bestselling ""Warriors"" books. The books consisting of six miniseries: ""Warriors"", ""Warriors: The New Prophecy"", ""Warriors: Power of Three"", ""Warriors: Omen of the Stars"", ""Warriors: Dawn of the Clans"" and ""Warriors: Vision of Shadows"" as well as several short plays, novels, and special editions, written by Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui Sutherland, Gillian Phillip, and newest addition Inbali Iserles under the pen name Erin Hunter, and published by HarperCollins. Holmes creates the"
"authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, and William Shakespeare. ""Warriors"" has received mostly positive reviews, but it has also been criticised for being confusing due to its large number of characters. Critics have compared it to the ""Redwall"" series, though one reviewer commented that the series is less elegantly written. Although nominated for several awards, ""Warriors"" has yet to receive any major literary prizes. The series has reached the ""New York Times"" Bestseller List and has found popularity in many countries, including Trinidad, Germany and China. On 20 October 2016, Vicky Holmes and Kate Cary, two"
"pages ... in Stirring Stories for Girls, 1960, Duthie, Eric. Editor ... in The Favourite Book for Girls ... in Girls' Story Omnibus ""Walls of Snow"" in The Splendid Book for Girls (about 1956) A number of these works were illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster A number of her works were translated into other languages German French Dutch Swedish Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 1963 Viola Bayley by Julie Makin Viola Bayley, Rye Castle Museum Viola Bayley Viola Clare Bayley (8 January 1911 – January 1997) was a British children's writer of adventure stories. Viola Clare Wingfield Powles was born"
"foreign publishers. Walters was the first crime/thriller writer to win three major prizes with her first three books. Walters's second novel, ""The Sculptress,"" which was inspired in part by an encounter Walters had as a volunteer prison visitor, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. Walters's third novel, ""The Scold's Bridle"", then won the CWA Gold Dagger, giving her a unique treble. Walters's themes include isolation, family dysfunction, rejection, marginalisation, justice and revenge. Her novels are often set against real backgrounds and real events to draw her readers into the 'reality' of what she is writing about. With no"
"the function of the novel, saying Throughout the essay, Fowles describes multiple influences and issues important to the novel's development, including his debt to other authors such as Thomas Hardy. In the essay, he describes surprise that the female character Sarah had taken the primary role in the novel. Later Fowles described other influences shaping the characters development, noting that the characters and story of ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" were loosely derived from Claire de Duras's 1823 novel ""Ourika,"" which features a tragic affair between an African woman and French military man. Fowles later published a 1977 translation of ""Ourika"""
"Janny Wurts Janny Wurts (born December 10, 1953) is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator. She has written several series, including the Wars of Light and Shadow, The Cycle of Fire trilogy, several stand-alone novels, a short story collection and the internationally best selling Empire Trilogy that she co-authored with Raymond E. Feist. She often illustrates her own work. Janny Wurts was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. In the 1980s, she worked as an illustrator for role-playing game supplements for Mayfair Games. Wurts has written numerous fantasy novels (19 as of 2016). Beyond writing, Wurts' award winning paintings have been"
"goes into high gear as they set out to rescue the women. Ultimately, one lady is reunited with her knight, another finds a new love when her knight is killed, and the last is left to mourn as her champion throws her over for Birdalone. The Water of the Wondrous Isles The Water of the Wondrous Isles is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first writer of modern fantasy to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus a precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. It was first printed in 1897 by Morris'"
"Wilson Rawls Woodrow Wilson Rawls, (September 24, 1913 - December 16, 1984) was an American writer best known for his books ""Where the Red Fern Grows"" and ""Summer of the Monkeys"". When Rawls was 16, the United States economy entered the Great Depression, prompting his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; however, the family's convertible broke down near Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Rawls's father found a job at the local toothpaste factory. In the 1930s and 1940s, Rawls became a carpenter and traveled to South America, Canada, and Alaska. He wrote five manuscripts during this period, including ""Where"
"Colleen McCullough Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being ""The Thorn Birds"" and ""The Ladies of Missalonghi"", the latter of which was involved in a plagiarism controversy. McCullough was born in 1937 in Wellington, in the Central West region of New South Wales, to James and Laurie McCullough. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, the family moved around a great deal and she was also ""a voracious reader""."
"The Wonderful Worlds of Wally McDoogle The Wonderful Worlds of Wally McDoogle is a book series written by American Christian author Bill Myers. The series is about a seventh grade thirteen-year-old named Wally McDoogle who is a bit of a klutz. Wally is intelligent, yet uncoordinated. He likes to write hero stories about crazy superheroes such as ""Floss Man"" or ""Bumble Boy"". Wally has two teenaged twin brothers, Burt and Brock, and a younger sister, Carrie. The McDoogle family also has a cat named Collision. Wally's best friends are Opera and Wall Street. Opera is a boy, loves potato chips,"
"Lindsay, ""Lady into Fox"" by David Garnett, ""Lud-in-the-Mist"" by Hope Mirrlees, and ""Lolly Willowes"" by Sylvia Townsend Warner. E. R. Eddison, another influential writer, wrote during this era. He drew inspiration from Northern sagas, as Morris did, but his prose style was modeled more on Tudor and Elizabethan English, and his stories were filled with vigorous characters in glorious adventures. Eddison's most famous work is ""The Worm Ouroboros"", a long heroic fantasy set on an imaginary version of the planet Mercury. His characters were often of great ability and noble, if not royal, birth. These characters have been admired for"
"of her own books. ""Valley of the Dolls"" spans twenty years (1945–1965) in the lives of three young women: Anne Welles, the New England beauty who liberates herself from her staid small town by coming to New York, where she falls in love with the dashing Lyon Burke; Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian who becomes a Hollywood star and self-destructs; and Jennifer North, a showgirl with little talent but a gorgeous face and figure, who becomes a friend to both. All three women fall prey to the ""dolls,"" amphetamines and barbiturates, a euphemism which Susann coined. The book was published"
"Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. Published in 1966, the book was the biggest selling novel of its year. To date, it has sold more than 31 million copies, making it one of the best-selling works in publishing history. The novel tells the story of three young women who become fast friends in the turbulent post-war worlds of Broadway and Hollywood: Anne Welles, a reserved New England beauty who sees New York as the romantic city of her dreams; Neely O'Hara, an ebullient vaudevillian with a talent she doesn't"
"list is organised by the author's surname. ""The Queen's Tiara"" () is a classic Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almquist about a beautiful androgyne, Tintomara. ""The World Wreckers"" is a 1971 science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley in her Darkover series. The book contains a complex sub-plot involving the sexual interactions between a hermaphrodite native species known as the ""chieri"" and humans. The ""Vorkosigan Saga"" is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. Many novels in the series contain an intersex character, Bel Thorne."
"the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott.) However, in many ways, it was now entering its most creative phase. Recently readers and critics have begun to reconsider a number of previously overlooked Penny Blood or ""penny dreadful"" serial fictions by such authors as George W. M. Reynolds who wrote a trilogy of Gothic horror novels: ""Faust"" (1846), ""Wagner the Wehr-wolf"" (1847) and ""The Necromancer"" (1857). Reynolds was also responsible for ""The Mysteries of London"" which has been accorded an important place in the development of the urban as a particularly Victorian Gothic setting, an area within which interesting links"
"Women of the Otherworld Women of the Otherworld is the name of a fantasy series by Canadian author Kelley Armstrong. The books feature werewolves, witches, necromancers, sorcerers, and vampires struggling to fit as ""normal"" in today's world. The series also includes novellas and short stories, published online (and one in an anthology). The narrators change from book to book, although they do reappear in other books. Below is a complete, in-universe chronological list of the series' 64 novels, online work, short stories, novellas and contributions to anthologies, based on the timeline given on Kelley Armstrong's official website. Armstrong's ""Short Fiction"""
"and causes"". McCullough also published five murder mysteries in the Carmine Delmonico series. Colleen McCullough Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being ""The Thorn Birds"" and ""The Ladies of Missalonghi"", the latter of which was involved in a plagiarism controversy. McCullough was born in 1937 in Wellington, in the Central West region of New South Wales, to James and Laurie McCullough. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, the"
"failure. American actor James Newman is her great-nephew. Elisabeth Beresford Elisabeth ""Liza"" Beresford, MBE (; 6 August 1926 – 24 December 2010) was a British author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a family with many literary connections, she worked as a journalist but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the late 1960s. The strong theme of recycling was particularly notable, and the Wombles became very popular with children across the world. While Beresford produced many other literary works, the Wombles remained her best-known creation. Beresford was born on 6 August 1926"
"the Woolfs lived, lending its name to the publishing company they founded. In July they published their first text, a book with one story written by Leonard and the other written by Virginia. Between 1917 and 1946 the Press published 527 titles. Hogarth Press has begun producing a series of modern retellings of William Shakespeare plays, for which it has hired a variety of authors, such as Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Tracy Chevalier and Edward St Aubyn for ""The Winter's Tale"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Tempest"", ""Othello"" and ""King Lear"""
"Most were reprinted, some with alternative titles. In 1966, several of the stories were presented on the BBC children's TV program 'Jackanory', read by the British actress Sheila Hancock. Susan Beatrice Pearse Susan Beatrice Pearse (19 January 1878 – 1980) was a British illustrator of children's books best known for the Ameliaranne series of books. She was born in Kennington in South London and educated at King Edward's School, Southwark. She married Walter E Webster in Fulham towards the end of 1919, but continued to use her maiden name professionally. To her friends, she was known as 'Trissy' Webster. She"
"series, ""Little House on the Prairie"", ""Madeline"", ""Pippi Longstocking"", ""A Wrinkle in Time"", ""Dragonsong"", and ""Little Women"". Beginning in the late Victorian era, more nuanced depictions of girl protagonists became popular. Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Little Match Girl"", ""The Little Mermaid"", and other tales featured themes that ventured into tragedy. ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" by Lewis Carroll featured a widely noted female protagonist confronting eccentric characters and intellectual puzzles in surreal settings. Moreover, Carroll's controversial photographs of girls are often cited in histories of photographic art. Literature followed different cultural currents, sometimes romanticizing and idealizing girlhood, and at other times"
"power of the stars in their paws"". The arc's major themes deal with forbidden love, the concept of nature versus nurture, and characters being a mix of good and bad. Though the novels have appeared on the ""New York Times"" Bestseller List and have been nominated for several awards, none of the novels in ""Warriors: Power of Three"" have won a significant literary award. ""Warriors"" is written by Erin Hunter, a pen name for four people: Victoria Holmes, who creates the storylines and edits, and Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland, who write the books in turns. The ""Warriors"""
"Geoffrey Willans Herbert Geoffrey Willans, RNVR, (4 February 1911 – 6 August 1958), an English author and journalist, is best known as the co-creator, with the illustrator Ronald Searle, of Nigel Molesworth, the ""goriller of 3B"" and ""curse of St. Custard's"". He was educated at Blundells School in Tiverton, and became a schoolmaster there. He enjoyed sailing in small boats, and during the war took part in the Greek Campaign and the Battle of Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, serving on the corvette . He later joined the carrier . Molesworth first appeared in ""Punch"" in 1939, and later"
"long time she was seen as the writer of small and unimportant sentimental novels, but recent criticism has revealed her works to be treasure troves of postmodern identity theory. It is likely she has not been well read because her choice and treatment of subject could not be appreciated until recently; she was ahead of her time. Claire de Duras Claire, Duchess of Duras (née de Kersaint; 1777–1828) was a French writer best known for her 1823 novel called ""Ourika"", which examines issues of racial and sexual equality, and which inspired the 1969 John Fowles novel ""The French Lieutenant's Woman""."
"children's book editor and escapes to the English countryside whenever she can to ride horses and walk her dog, Missy. Victoria is also the author of the books ""Rider in the Dark"", published in 2004, ""The Horse from the Sea"", published in 2005, and ""Heart of Fire"", published in 2006. Victoria Holmes Victoria ""Vicky"" Holmes is an English author. She is better known as Erin Hunter, a pseudonym under which she and many others wrote the New York Times Bestselling ""Warriors"" books. The books consisting of six miniseries: ""Warriors"", ""Warriors: The New Prophecy"", ""Warriors: Power of Three"", ""Warriors: Omen of"
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature,"
"in a starred review of ""Wake of Vultures"" that ""Bowen has created a fascinating, textured Wild West world. The monsters are gruesome, the battles are bloody, and the pace of this story never flags."" Delilah S. Dawson Delilah S. Dawson is an American author, primarily of fantasy and science fiction, whose works have been published since 2012. She writes fantasy as Lila Bowen and erotica as Ava Lovelace. Dawson's work includes the ""Blud"" series of steampunk paranormal romance novels, the ""Shadow"" series of Weird West novels (as Bowen), as well as several young adult novels and erotica. She has also"
"bring in the theme of maiden virtue rudely strumpeted as often as possible."" Reynolds' ""Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf"" was a gothic novel which described how the title character became a werewolf after making a pact with the devil. ""Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf"" was republished in 1975 by Dover Books with an introduction and bibliography of Reynolds by E. F. Bleiler. Reynold's novels remained in print on both sides of the Atlantic longer than those of many of his contemporaries. An 1875 edition of Reynolds's ""Ciprina"", published in Philadelphia, lists 40 novels including ""Mysteries of London"" under the heading ""George W. M. Reynolds'"
"of beauty and tranquility open to the public. Other sources Barbara Willard Barbara Mary Willard (12 March 1909 – 18 February 1994) was a British novelist best known for children's historical fiction. Her ""Mantlemass Chronicles"" is a family saga set in 15th to 17th-century England. For one chronicle, ""The Iron Lily"" (1973), she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by panel of British children's writers. Willard was born in Brighton, Sussex in 1909, the daughter of the Shakespearean actor Edmund Willard and Mabel Theresa Tebbs. She was also the great-niece of Victorian-era actor Edward"
"Avalon Series The Avalon Series is a series of fantasy novels written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson. It was illustrated by Braldt Bralds, John Jude Palencar, and Dominic Harman. Paxson later took over sole authorship after Bradley's death in 1999. The series focuses on the legendary island of Avalon and the various women who have shaped its history and that of Britain. The Avalon series retells the Matter of Britain from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Through a set of stories that spans several centuries, it tells of how the mystic isle"
"Abigail Reynolds Abigail Reynolds is an American author and physician. She is best known as the author of Jane Austen-inspired novels in the Pemberley Variations series as well as modern novels set on Cape Cod. Abigail Reynolds was raised in upstate New York. She studied Russian and theater at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and marine biology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. After working in performing arts administration, she attended medical school. She took up writing as a hobby during her years as a physician in private practice. She lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with her husband"