Margaret Forster
A Life in Books
Margaret Forster was one of the UK's most prolific and respected authors. Born in Cumbria to working class parents in 1938, she published her first novel at the age of twenty two. Since then she has written 25 novels as well as 9 non-fiction titles - a mixture of award-winning biography and memoir. Kathleen Jones, a biographer, poet and fellow Cumbrian, explores Margaret's books against the background of her life - divided between the quiet hills of the Lake District and the busy capital city London; between the demands of a lively family, and her own writing career. This book sets out to answer…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9574332-1-2
- EAN: 9780957433212
- Produktnummer: 23014092
- Verlag: The Book Mill
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 158 S.
- Masse: H17.8 cm x B10.8 cm x D0.8 cm 132 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 132
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Kathleen Jones is a Sunday Times best-selling novelist, biographer and poet living in the English Lake District. She is the author of more than fifteen books and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Born and brought up on a small hill farm she spent more than ten years living in Africa and the Middle East, where she worked in English broadcasting. Her work has won a number of important prizes. 'A Passionate Sisterhood' (Virago) won the Barclays Bank Prize for Biography and her recent collection of poetry, 'Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21' (Templar Poetry) won the Straid Award. Kathleen's biography of Catherine Cookson (Times Warner) was in the top 10 bestseller lists for more than 8 weeks. She now lives in an old mill beside one of northern England's major rivers and is a passionate environmentalist.
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