This text helps introduce to borrowers and book purchasers novelists whose work is new to them. Over 1875 authors are listed in this edition and under each name there is a short list of other novelists who write in a similar style, or who approach a subject in a comparable way.

This text helps introduce to borrowers and book purchasers novelists whose work is new to them. Over 1970 authors are listed in this edition and under each name there is a short list of other novelists who write in a similar style, or who approach a subject in a comparable way.

Love is our only hope. It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks. In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Anne Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity and guides us forward. In each chapter, Lamott refracts all the colours of the spectrum....

Jean Rhys was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her literary masterpiece, 'Wide Sargasso Sea'. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, never far from the edge. In 'The Blue Hour', Lilian Pizzichini enters Rhys's world.

15 year-old Angel knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted author and the owner of great riches. After reading her first novel the publishers are certain it will be a success. Curious as to who could have written such a book, they are unprepared when Angel steps forward as the author.

Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day of her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time, and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same day every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been...

McLaren offers a strikingly inventive and unusual portrait of the most successful English writer for children until J.K. Rowling, Enid Blyton, who entertained milions worldwide with her many adventure stories and mysteries but was herself an adventure and a mystery.

Josephine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences which define her as a writer and which so enthrall her readers.

More than a biography, this book visits Maeve Binchy in the land of her birth, which is the environment of her novels, and in the company of the author and her fictional characters sets out to discover the emotional contours which define her as a writer and person.

Meg Hutchinson grew up as Margaret Rose Astbury in Wednesbury during the first half of the 20th century. She describes not only the constant struggle to make ends meet but also the laughter and love she enjoyed with her five sisters and parents who were too soft-hearted to punish any of their daughters.