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Contents
David Williams 4
Francis Durbridge 5
Gerald Durrell 6
Vita Sackville-West 7
Andrew Garve 8
Pamela Hansford Johnson 10
Eva Ibbotson 11
D. J. Taylor 12
Gillian Tindall 13
Lillian Comber 14
Josephine Bell 15
Contacts 16
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david WilliamsDavid Williams was a writer best known for his crime-novel series featuring the
banker Mark Treasure and police inspector DI Parry.
After serving as Naval officer in the Second World War, Williams completed
a History degree at St Johns College, Oxford before embarking on a career in
advertising. He became a full-time fiction writer in 1978.
Williams wrote twenty-three novels, seventeen of which were part of the
Mark Treasure series of whodunnits which began with Unholy Writ(1976). His
experience in both the Anglican Church and the advertising world informed and
inspired his work throughout his career.
Two of Williams books were shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold
Dagger Award, and in 1988 he was elected to the Detection Club.
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tReasuRe in oxfoRd
Its high summer in Oxford. The university vacation has just begun. Theeight governors of the Moneybuckle Endowment (an architectural library) are
assembling at All Saints College for the annual dinner before their meeting under
chairman Mark Treasure, merchant banker. The talk at the table is of some
pricey sketches said to be by Constable, and an offer from a dealer in the town.
But the talk turns to shock when murders done in Walton Street with the sketches
as the obvious motive. The police are quick to make an arrest, but Treasure
is sure theyve got the wrong suspect even though all other likely culprits are
Moneybuckle governors, or Moneybuckles custodian himself.
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fRanCis duRBRidgeFrancis Henry Durbridge was an English playwright and author born in Hull. In
1938, he created the character Paul Temple for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul
Temple.
A crime novelist and detective, the gentlemanly Temple solved numerous crimes
with the help of Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist who later became his wife.
The character proved enormously popular and appeared in 16 radio serials
and later spawned a 64-part big-budget television series (1969-71) and radio
productions, as well as a number of comic strips, four feature films and various
foreign radio productions.
Francis Durbridge also had a successful career as a writer for the stage and screen.
His most successful play, Suddenly at Home, ran in Londons West End for over a
year.
a game of muRdeR
Set in London,A Game of Murderfeatures a young Scotland Yard CIT officer whois on leave when his father dies in a golfing accident. But Harry Dawson wont
let the mystery go, for mystery it is. Who is the young man seen on the golf links?
Why is everyone so interested in a dog collar? What is the connection with the
man in the pet shop? Is it really possible that the housekeepers nephew can be
inept as he seems? And where is the housekeeper?
Francis Durbridges twisting, turning plot drips suspense on every page,
quickening into a flood of action and mystery that keeps the reader guessing till
the very end.
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geRald duRRellGerald Durrell was one of Britains best loved authors and pioneering naturalists.
His books, such as the bestsellingMy Family and Other Animalswhich celebrated its
50th Anniversary in 2006, continue to entertain generations of children and adults
alike.
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an international conservation charity
with headquarters in Jersey, UK.
tHe PiCniC and suCHlike
PandemoniumIf you lovedMy Family and Other Animalsand cant get enough of the Durrells
after the Corfu series, this is the book for you. It constitutes a series of anecdotal
snippets and short stories including The Picnic, a laugh-out-loud account of an
ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair.
But with the Durrells things are seldom straightforward and on this occasion all
that could go wrong did go wrong except Gerald Durrells sense of humour in
recounting the tale. Other hilarious and surreal Roald Dahlesque stories ensue,
including the critically acclaimed Gothic horror story The Entrance.
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vita saCkville-WestThe Hon. Lady Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and
gardener. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage
to Harold Nicolson, her passionate relationships with women and her gardens at
Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.
Sackville-Wests long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in
1927, and her Collected Poemswon the prize again in 1933. Her best-known novels
are The Edwardians(1930) andAll Passion Spent(1931). Both titles were reissued
alongside her earlier novel, Challenge(1923), by Virago in Spring 2011.
family HistoRy
One never gets enough love.A novel by the acclaimed author, poet and gardener which recounts the ill-fated
relationship of Evelyn Jarrold, a 39-year-old fashionable upper middle class widow
and 25-year-old Miles Vane-Merrick, a socially aware aristocrat. While they
are passionately in love they both have powerful and contrasting domineering
personalities. They make each other happy and unhappy, she beadily aware of the
unconventional age gap and lacking confidence in Miless world. Miles has many
interests including his love for Evelyn, his estate, his politics, his interesting friends.
He is set to become a successful, popular politician. A wonderful evocation of the
complexity of 1930s high-society mores and values, Family History is a universal
love story.
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Paul WinteRtonPaul Winterton (1908-2001) was born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme
Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County School, Surrey, after which
he took a degree in Economics at London University. He was on the staff ofThe
Economistfor four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London News
Chronicleas reporter leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned
to Moscow from 1942/5, where he was also the correspondent of the BBCsOverseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure novels and
produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized, televised, broadcast,
filmed and translated into some twenty languages. He is noted for his varied and
unusual backgrounds which have included Russia, newspaper offices, the West
Indies, ocean sailing, the Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry
and for never repeating a plot.
Paul Winterton was a founding member and first joint secretary of the Crime
Writers Association.
muRdeR in mosCoWForeign correspondent George Gerney, travelling to Moscow by train to report for
his newspaper on post-war changes there, finds himself in the company of a pro-
Soviet delegation from England. His aloof attitude towards his fellow passengers
receives a jolt, however, when one of them is murdered in Moscow. He refuses to
accept the official Russian explanation of the crime and, better versed than most
foreigners in Soviet tactics of every kind, he does his own investigating giving a
shrewd and often amusing picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.
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Andrew Garve
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Paul WinteRton
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Pamela HansfoRd
JoHnsonPamela Hansford Johnson was born in 1912 and gained recognition with her first
novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935. She wrote 27 novels. Her themes
centred on the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and socialrelations. The fictional genres she used ranged from romantic comedy (Night and
Silence, Who Is Here?) and high comedy (The Unspeakable Skipton) to tragedy (The Holiday
Friend) and the psychological study of cruelty (An Error of Judgement). Her last novel,A
Bonfire, was published in the year of her death, 1981.
She was a critic as well as a novelist and wrote books on Thomas Wolfe and Ivy
Compton-Burnett; Six Proust Reconstructions(1958) confirmed her reputation as a
leading Proustian scholar. She also wrote a play, Corinth House(1954), a work of social
criticism arising out of the Moors Trial, On Iniquity (1967), and a book of essays,
Important to Me(1974). She received honorary degrees from six universities and was a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded the C.B.E. in 1975.
Pamela Hansford Johnson, who had two children by her first marriage with journalist
Gordan Neil Stewart, later married C. P. Snow. Their son Philip was born in 1952.
too deaR foR my PossessingBruges, bedecked with stiff Madonnas . . . London, going wild in the Twenties . . .
Paris, where white powdered faces gleam from cafe tables . . .
Against these backdrops unfolds the life of Claud Pickering as he describes his
boyhood, dominated by his step-mother Helena, and the complications and
compromises, the yearnings and expectations of young adulthood. It is the story
of his failed marriage, and it is the story of his passion for Cecil, a singer, thathaunted Claud with all the elusiveness and the destructiveness of a dream.
Too Dear For My Possessingis the first volume in the Helena trilogy, in which Pamela
Hansford Johnson demonstrates superbly her considerable powers as a novelist. The
story continues inAn Avenue of Stoneand concludes inA Summer To Decide.
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eva iBBotsonEva Ibbotson was born into a literary family in Vienna in 1925 and came to
England as a small girl before the war. She took an Honours degree in Physiology
at the University of London and went on to do post-graduate research at
Cambridge, where she married a fellow scientist.
Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, manyof which garnered nominations for awards for childrens literature in the UK,
including the Nestl Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. In her fiction
for adults, includingA Countess Below Stairs (The Secret Countess),Magic FlutesandA
Company of Swans, Ibbotson was determined to prove that romantic novels can be
funny, well-written and even a little erudite.
Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on October 20th 2010. Her final
book, One Boy and His Dog, was published in May 2011 and was nominated for the
Childrens Book of the Year at the 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards.
madensky sQuaReEva Ibbotsons magical novel set in that most poignant of all times and places,
Vienna before the First World War.
Susannas dress shop stands in the delightful Madensky Square and is the very hub
and heart of life. Susanna sympathizes with her neighbours, watches over Signi,
the wretched, orphaned child prodigy, and with her infallible eye for dress, turns
an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.
Of all the colourful characters inMadensky Square, only her dear friend Alice has
the slightest inkling that Susanna hides more than one secret. This hidden life full
of passion and anguish gradually unfolds in a city of romance, music and gossip.
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d. J. tayloRD. J. Taylor is well known as an author, critic and reviewer. He was born in
1960, went to Norwich School and St Johns College, Oxford, and is the author
of two acclaimed biographies, Thackery (1999), and Orwell: The Life, which won
the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He has written nine novels, the most
recent beingDerby Day (2011, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). His journalism
appears in the Independentand the Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, the Spectator,theNew Statesman and, anonymously, in Private Eye.
gReat easteRn landBetween walking by the river and imbibing tasteless liquor at Dr Feelgoods, a
mice-infested emporium presided over by the dubious Mousookseem, David
Castell is compiling his Notebooks. Though thwarted by Caro, who runs the
house, buys the ink, and sullenly disapproves of his masters activities, David
perseveres, believing the past to be an infinitely more agreeable subject for
speculation than the future.
Davids notebooks glide between past and present, juxtaposing a number of
settings: Oxford, where drunken eccentrics try to steer clear of sinister dons; EastAnglia, where myth and legend are flourishing between the wide expanse of sky
and field; and another, distant Eastern Land where oranges rot in the sun and the
generator hums when Caro, idle or vengeful by turns, chooses to turn it on.
All this is comic grist to the authors mill. Through the musings of its erudite and
pig-headed narrator, the novel becomes a cunning debate about the various ways
duped by our own imaginations we take liberties with history, throwing artful,
sidelong glances at the metaphysics of fiction, but not so as you would notice. As
past and present collide in unexpected ways so the debate continues, as elusive
as it is entertaining.
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gillian tindallGillian Tindall began her career as a prize-winning novelist. She has continued to
publish fiction but has also staked out an impressive territory in idiosyncratic non-
fiction that is brilliantly evocative of place.
Her The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Villagewhich first appeared thirty
years ago, has rarely been out of print; nor has Celestine: Voices from a French Village,
published in the mid 1990s and translated into several languages, for which she
was decorated by the French government.
Well known for the quality of her writing and the meticulous nature of her
research, Gillian is a master of miniaturist history. She lives with her husband in
London.
looking foRWaRdEmerging from a grief-shadowed childhood in the First World War, Mary
Denvers struggles to achieve her ambition to become a doctor. Through the years
of the sexual revolution she plays an eminent part at the vanguard of the birth
control movement.
Her cousin Dodie, meanwhile, is a frivolous jazz flapper who rises to short-lived
stardom as a novelist before wasting away in insanity.
Though their fortunes are reversed as the years go by, childless Mary is prey
to an enduring envy of Dodies motherhood, and finds her ideas challenged asnew temptations confront her. The rivalries, ambitions and achievements of the
women are finely paralleled against a superbly evoked background of changing
decades.
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lillian BeCkWitHLillian Comber wrote fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children under
the pseudonym Lillian Beckwith. She is best known for her series of comic novels
based on her time living on a croft in the Scottish Hebrides.
Beckwith was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in 1916, where her father ran a
grocery shop. The shop provided the background for her memoirAbout My Fathers
Business, a childs eye view of a 1920s family. She moved to the Isle of Skye with
her husband in 1942, and began writing fiction after moving to the Isle of Man
with her family twenty years later. She also completed a cookery book, Secrets from
a Crofters Kitchen (Arrow, 1976).
Since her death, Beckwiths novelA Shine of Rainbowshas been made into a film
starring Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen, which in 2009 won Best Feature
awards at the Heartland and Chicago Childrens Film Festivals.
aBout my fatHeRs BusinessLillian Beckwith takes us back to her childhood; to the years before the Second
World War, when her father ran a small grocers shop in a Cheshire town.
It was typical of so many corner shops the shops that are now more and more
becoming just a memory, overwhelmed by redevelopment and the march of
the supermarket. The corner shop where customers were known, often friends,
people, not just faces at a checkout point, where shopping was gossipy, unhurried.
A shop full of remembered smells of childhood: soft soap, aniseed balls, bacon and
tea.A shop that is brought to life by the acute, affectionate memories of the little girl
who grew up in it.
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JosePHine BellJosephine Bell was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester, England. Between 1910
and 1916 she studied at Godolphin School, then trained at Newnham College,
Cambridge until 1919. At the University College Hospital in London she was
granted M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1922, and a M.B. B.S. in 1924.
Bell was a prolific author, writing forty-three novels and numerous uncollected
short stories during a forty-five year period.
Many of her short stories appeared in the London Evening Standard. Using her pen
name she wrote numerous detective novels beginning in 1936, and she was well-
known for her medical mysteries. Her early books featured the fictional character
Dr. David Wintringham who worked at Research Hospital in London as a junior
assistant physician. She helped found the Crime Writers Association in 1953 and
served as chair during 1959-60.
a Question of inHeRitanCeIt is 1953, and stately Garwood House is home to the Bennet family: Percy, his
wife Florence, and their newborn son Philip. But Percy and Florences marriage
is one of convenience, not love, and when an unexpected and tragic death
endangers their fragile arrangement, Florence will stop at nothing to cover it up.
Over twenty years later a violent and seemingly inexplicable murder threatens
to unearth long-buried secrets. It is a mystery that takes Philip, his Aunt Amy
and the police to Naples and back, desperately seeking not just the murderer, but
answers. Why was the housekeeper suddenly and unceremoniously dismissed twodecades ago? Why does Florence seem to have two passports? And above all, who
is the real heir to Garwood House?
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