"as Lady Constance and Mark Williams as Sebastian Beach. Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend ""Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the 6 October 1928 issue of ""Liberty"" and in the United Kingdom in the November 1928 ""The Strand"". Part of the ""Blandings Castle"" canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection ""Blandings Castle and Elsewhere"" (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of ""Leave it to Psmith"" (1923) and ""Summer Lightning"" (1929). Wodehouse intended"
"original collections: Bingo Little Freddie Widgeon Other Can be added six novels about the adventures of Drones as main protagonist: Related are all stories about those Drones Club members already part of another series (Jeeves and Bertie, Blandings's Freddie Threepwood, Uncle Fred and Pongo, Psmith, Mr Mulliner's nephew Archibald Mulliner), but more especially: Relatable is one story, which features the club and a Drone as a secondary character, and marks the first mention of the Drones Club: Many more stories simply include a Drones member in some scenes, or have mentions of club members. Not included are all identical stories"
"and American magazines. ""Lord Emsworth and Others"" contains one story set at Blandings Castle, three golf stories narrated by the Oldest Member, one story featuring Drones Club member Freddie Widgeon, one tale narrated by Mr Mulliner, and three Ukridge stories. ""The Crime Wave at Blandings"" contains the Blandings, Mulliner and Freddie Widgeon stories, to which were added two more Drones stories, a Bingo Little story, and a novella, ""The Medicine Girl"", which had been published separately in the UK as ""Doctor Sally"" (1932). The three Oldest Member stories had already appeared in the US edition of ""Young Men in Spats"""
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (novel) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1946 comedy novel written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig, describing the vicissitudes of buying a home in the country. It originally appeared as a short story called ""Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle"" in the April 1946 issue of ""Fortune"" magazine. Within two years the novel had sold 540,000 copies. The screen rights were sold for $200,000. It was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 1948, which starred Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas. Later three radio adaptations"
"Frances Hardinge Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British children's writer. Her debut novel, ""Fly By Night"", won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the ""School Library Journal"" Best Books, while her 2015 novel ""The Lie Tree"" won the 2015 Costa Book Award, the first children's book to do so since Philip Pullman's ""The Amber Spyglass"" in 2001. She has also been shortlisted and achieved a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her short stories. Hardinge is often seen wearing a black hat and enjoys dressing in old-fashioned"
"Chris Wooding Chris Wooding (born 28 February 1977) is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, ""Crashing"", which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including ""The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray"", which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and ""Poison"", which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author of three different, completed series; ""Broken Sky"", an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, ""Braided Path"", a fantasy trilogy for adults, and"
"Drones Club members, see the club members list. Rosie M. Banks (also called Rosie Little) is a recurring fictional character in the Drones Club stories. She is the wife of Bingo Little and a romance novelist. She also appears in several Jeeves stories. Cyril ""Barmy"" Fotheringay-Phipps (pronounced ""Fungy Fips"") is a fictional character in the Drones Club stories. A tall, willowy figure with fair hair, he is the nephew of Theodore, Lord Binghampton and a member of the Drones Club. On one Boat Race night, he was arrested in Leicester Square by his younger brother George, a policeman. He appears"
"all published in the UK by Macmillan Children's Books. While ""Fly By Night"" was being finalised for publication, Hardinge signed a deal with Macmillan Publishers to produce three further novels. Hardinge has written several short stories published in magazines and anthologies. Frances Hardinge Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British children's writer. Her debut novel, ""Fly By Night"", won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the ""School Library Journal"" Best Books, while her 2015 novel ""The Lie Tree"" won the 2015 Costa Book Award, the first children's book to do so since Philip Pullman's ""The"
"Newfoundland. Rodgers lives with his family in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador and is working on his second novel. Gordon Rodgers Gordon Rodgers (born 1952 in Gander, Newfoundland) is a Canadian writer. Rodgers is the author of two books of poetry: ""Floating Houses"" (1984), and ""The Pyrate Latitudes"" (1986), as well as a novella entitled ""The Phoenix"" (1985). In 1999, he released his first novel, ""A Settlement of Memory"", which is loosely based on the life of William Coaker. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and an MSc from Memorial University of Newfoundland."
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) is an American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas. The film was written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, and was an adaptation of Eric Hodgins' popular 1946 novel, illustrated by ""Shrek!"" author William Steig. This film was the third and last pairing of Grant and Loy, who had shared a comfortable chemistry previously in ""The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"" (1947) and ""Wings in the Dark"" (1935). The film was a box"
"Blandings is a fictional town, being the closest town to Blandings Castle. It is the site of the Emsworth Arms and a host of other hostelries (such as the ""Beetle and Wedge"", the ""Blue Boar"", the ""Blue Cow"", the ""Blue Dragon"", the ""Cow and Grasshopper"", the ""Goat and Feathers"", the ""Goose and Gander"", the ""Jolly Cricketers"", the ""Stitch in Time"", the ""Wheatsheaf"", and the ""Waggoner's Rest""), as well as a useful railway station, from where a fast train can get you to Paddington in under four hours. A sleepy old place, Market Blandings is one of England's most picturesque towns,"
"Gordon Rodgers Gordon Rodgers (born 1952 in Gander, Newfoundland) is a Canadian writer. Rodgers is the author of two books of poetry: ""Floating Houses"" (1984), and ""The Pyrate Latitudes"" (1986), as well as a novella entitled ""The Phoenix"" (1985). In 1999, he released his first novel, ""A Settlement of Memory"", which is loosely based on the life of William Coaker. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and an MSc from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is a clinical psychologist, and is a part-time lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of"
"book and the movie, Hodgins did not tear down the old farmhouse, but built the new house next to it. The farmhouse remained until at least the 1970s. In addition to the 1948 film, the novel was adapted as three radio plays, all starring Cary Grant. In 1951 Grant starred in a follow-up radio series titled ""Mr. and Mrs. Blandings"" on NBC. The novel was also the basis of the 2007 film ""Are We Done Yet?"", starring Ice Cube. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (novel) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1946 comedy novel written by Eric"
"art room. Between the south and west tower are the mistresses rooms. The school also has stables, tennis courts, sports pitches and an outside, natural swimming pool. Malory Towers Malory Towers is a series of six novels by English children's author Enid Blyton. The series is based on the girls' boarding school Benenden School that Blyton's daughter attended, and that relocated during the war to the Cornish seaside. The series follows the protagonist, Darrell Rivers on her adventures and experiences in boarding school. Darrell Rivers' name was inspired by that of Blyton's second husband: Kenneth Darrell Waters. In 2009, six"
"Damien Broderick Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 70 books. His science fiction novel ""The Dreaming Dragons"" (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine, his ""The Judas Mandala"" (1982) contains the first appearance of the term ""virtual reality"" in science fiction, and his 1997 popular science book ""The Spike"" was the first to investigate the technological singularity in detail. Broderick holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University, Australia, with a dissertation (""Frozen Music"") comparing the semiotics of scientific, literary, and science fictional"
"Hooded Swan The Hooded Swan series (or Star Pilot Grainger series) is a series of science fiction novels by Brian Stableford, published in the early 1970s, beginning with ""Halcyon Drift"" (1972). It consists of six books, which have also been collected in an omnibus entitled ""Swan Songs: The Complete Hooded Swan Collection"" (2001). The series is set in the far future and possesses some of the features of space opera and planetary romance. It is narrated in the first person by the main character, Grainger, a well-known independent pilot. He is acerbic, sarcastic, and generally disagreeable on principle, attempting to"
"The Castle of Adventure The Castle of Adventure (published in 1946) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the second book in The Adventure Series. The first edition of the book was illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. Jack, Lucy, Dinah and Philip attempt to figure out what is behind the strange goings-on at a ruined castle near Spring Cottage in Scotland where they are on holiday with Dinah and Philip's mother, Aunt Allie. The four youngsters make friends with Tassie, a mysterious gypsy living in the woods with her mother. Along with Bill Cunningham, who appears later in"
"the lyrics of which were inspired by historical tales of wreckers luring ships to their demise. ""Crimson Shore"" is part of the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The main story involves a ship, the ""Pembroke Castle"", being purposefully wrecked on the rocks off the coast of Massachusetts. ""Coot Club"", the fifth of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of books, features wreckers on the Norfolk Broads. ""The Wreck of the Zanzibar"" is a Whitbread Award-winning children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, set on the Isles of Scilly. ""H.M.S. Dolores"" is a 2016 board game whose plot centers"
"the Buck's Club and the Bachelors' Club, even naming his club's barman ""McGarry"" too. Norman Murphy the distinguished Wodehouse historian: ""As the summary at the beginning of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets puts it: ""In the heart of London's clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi-drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the Drones Club. Yet its somewhat austere exterior belies the atmosphere of cheerful optimism and bonhomie that prevails within."" In fact, Wodehouse never became a member here but his friend Guy Bolton did and they lunched together here several times."
"""Malice"", a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, ""Tales of the Ketty Jay"", a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults. Chris Wooding Chris Wooding (born 28 February 1977) is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, ""Crashing"", which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including ""The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray"", which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and ""Poison"", which won the Lancashire Children's"
"concerns characters from his first novel, ""Tinkers"", looking at the lives of George Crosby's grandson, Charlie Crosby, and his daughter Kate. Musically, he admires jazz drummers and considers John Coltrane's drummer, Elvin Jones, the greatest. Harding lives near Boston with his wife and two sons. Paul Harding (author) Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel ""Tinkers"" (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize among other honors. Harding was the drummer in the band Cold Water Flat throughout its existence from 1990 to"
"William Butler Yeats and ""The Oven Bird"" by Robert Frost. Several paintings are also mentioned, including Rousseau's ""The Dream"" and van Gogh's ""Bedroom in Arles"". Plowing the Dark Plowing the Dark (2000) is a novel by American writer Richard Powers. It follows two narrative threads; one of an American teacher turned Lebanese prisoner of war, the other the construction of a high-tech virtual reality simulator. Taimur Martin, the prisoner of war, spends five years analyzing and replaying his life while trapped in a single room. He has little outside contact. He occasionally exchanges words with his captors, and for a"
"Craig Stone (author) Craig Stone (born 24 August 1980) is a British author. He left a job in the city to live homeless in a park, during which time he wrote his first book, ""The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness"", a semi-autobiographical account of his time in the park. He later wrote ""Life Knocks"", ""Deep in the Bin of Bob"" and ""How to Hide from Humans"", and is the author of the blog, ""Thought Scratchings"", shortlisted for the 2014 UK Blog Awards. His second novel ""Life Knocks"" was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize. At the age of 30"
"dancer/choreographer Martha Graham, drummer Milford Graves, author William Butler (author of ""The Butterfly Revolution""), economist Karl Polanyi and a number of Pulitzer Prize-winning and acclaimed poets including W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Mary Oliver, Theodore Roethke, Donald Hall, and Anne Waldman. In 2017, Bennington College acquired the Robert Frost Stone House Museum through a gift from the Friends of Robert Frost. Robert Frost lived in the colonial era home in Shaftsbury, VT from 1920 to 1929, during which time he wrote many of his well known works including the poem ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."" Frost was involved"
"author of ""The Boats of the Glen Carrig"", ""The House on the Borderland"" and ""The Night Land"". In 1897, Bram Stoker published ""Dracula"", an enormously influential Gothic novel featuring the parasitic vampire Count Dracula in an extended exercise of reversed imperialism. Unusually, Stoker makes explicit reference to the writings of Lombroso and Nordau in the course of the novel. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories include a host of degenerationist tropes, perhaps best illustrated (drawing on the ideas of Serge Voronoff) in ""The Adventure of the Creeping Man"". Degeneration theory Social degeneration was a widely influential concept at the interface"
"The Flight Engineer The Flight Engineer is a trilogy of science-fiction novels by S. M. Stirling and James Doohan and published by Baen Books. It consists of The Rising (published in 1996), The Privateer (1999) and The Independent Command (2000). ""The Rising"" begins in media res during a conflict between two groups, the Commonwealth and an extremist religious group the Mission Of Life Lived In Ecclesia (commonly referred to as ""Mollies"") and the Mollies' allies, an alien species known as the Fibians. The basis of the conflict is that the Mollies settled an otherwise worthless sector of the galaxy, later"
"the cast would remain at Blandings for the excitements of ""Heavy Weather"" (1933). Summer Lightning Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the United Kingdom on 19 July 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It was serialised in ""The Pall Mall Magazine"" (UK) between March and August 1929 and in Collier's (US) from 6 April to 22 June 1929. It forms part of the Blandings Castle saga, being the third full-length novel to be set there, after"
"movements."" Bradley Sands Bradley Sands (born December 28, 1978) is an American author. He is involved in the Bizarro movement in underground literature with Steve Aylett, Chris Genoa, Carlton Mellick III and D. Harlan Wilson. Sands' work has been described as absurd, comedic, and transgressive. His influences include Steve Aylett, Mark Leyner, Woody Allen, Raymond Chandler, and the movie ""Airplane!"" He received an &Now Award for Innovative Fiction. Sands was the editor-in-chief of the defunct literary journal, ""Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens"", which was described as ""the figurehead publication for the Bizarro, Absurdist, and modern Surrealist"
"Bradley Sands Bradley Sands (born December 28, 1978) is an American author. He is involved in the Bizarro movement in underground literature with Steve Aylett, Chris Genoa, Carlton Mellick III and D. Harlan Wilson. Sands' work has been described as absurd, comedic, and transgressive. His influences include Steve Aylett, Mark Leyner, Woody Allen, Raymond Chandler, and the movie ""Airplane!"" He received an &Now Award for Innovative Fiction. Sands was the editor-in-chief of the defunct literary journal, ""Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens"", which was described as ""the figurehead publication for the Bizarro, Absurdist, and modern Surrealist literary"
"The Sleepover Club The Sleepover Club is a series of children's books by authors Rose Impey, Narinder Dhami, Lorna Read , Fiona Cummings, Louis Catt, Sue Mongredien (aka Lucy Diamond), Angie Bates, Ginny Deals, Harriet Castor and Jana Novotny Hunter. It has also been adapted into a children's television programme. While the books were set in Cuddington, Leicester, England, the television show was set in the fictional Australian beachside suburb of Crescent Bay. The books revolve around five young girls who are part of a club in which they sleepover at each other's houses at least once a week. The"
"Nicola Monaghan Nicola Monaghan is an English novelist and author of ""The Killing Jar"", ""Starfishing"" and ""The Okinawa Dragon"". Monaghan was listed in The Independent’s New Year 2006 list of rising talent, and won a Betty Trask Award, the Author's Club Best First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award for her debut. Her second novel ""Starfishing"" and novella ""The Okinawa Dragon"" came out in 2008. She has also had stories published in anthologies and magazines, including ""Sunday Night and Monday Morning"" (Five Leaves), ""Cool Brittania"" (Wachenbach) and online magazine Pulp.Net Monaghan has written screenplays for Council Child Productions,"
"taken from his room by Plimsoll), she is annoyed to realise she had it all along, Plimsoll having handed it to her when he still thought Lister was an hallucination. The affairs of Tipton Plimsoll and the Wedge family are continued in ""Galahad at Blandings"" (1965). Full Moon (novel) Full Moon is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States by Doubleday & Company on 22 May 1947, and in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins on 17 October 1947. It is the sixth full-length novel to be set at the beautiful but trouble-ridden Blandings Castle,"
"Flung Adventures series, written by Stewart and illustrated by Riddell. All London: Macmillan Paul Stewart (writer) Paul Stewart (born June 1955) is a writer of children's books, best known for three series written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell: ""The Edge Chronicles"", the ""Free Lance"" novels, and the ""Far Flung Adventures"" series. Paul Stewart lives in the British seaside city of Brighton with his wife and children. Paul Stewart was born in London in 1955. His family lived first in Muswell Hill, North London and later in Morden, South London, where he went to school. His favourite subject at"