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Left Hand of Darkness for TV

December 30, 2017 by bookworm

Sketch of Le Guin by Drew Weing Hugo and Nebula-winning novel, The Left Hand of Darkness from Ursula K Le Guin is considered the most famous exploration of androgyny and gender fluidity in speculative fiction. After the success of The Handmaid's Tale, it's no surprise that television producers … [Read more...]

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Lindsey Davis

January 10, 2017 by bookworm

Lindsey Davis, English historical novelist, has written most of her books in that difficult genre, the historical whodunnit. Falco the Informer The resourceful, bantering Marcus Didius Falco is the narrator in the Falco series, somewhat of a Sam Spade in Ancient Rome, a tough guy with an … [Read more...]

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Arnaldur

September 21, 2015 by bookworm

To write is ingrained in the Icelandic culture. After all, that's what they did for more than a thousand years during the long dark winters. They told stories and they wrote down those stories, prose histories, unpretentious and unadorned. Stories of farmers and families, of warriors and kings, … [Read more...]

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Ursula K Le Guin

September 9, 2015 by bookworm

In the early 1960s, when Ursula K. Le Guin began to publish, science fiction was dominated by so-called hard sci-fi: speculative fiction grounded in physics, chemistry, and, to a lesser extent, biology. The understanding of technological progress as an unalloyed good went largely unquestioned; … [Read more...]

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Ann Cleeves

September 9, 2015 by bookworm

Ann Cleeves is the author of the books behind ITV's VERA, now in its third series, and the BBC's SHETLAND. Her DI Vera Stanhope series of books is set in Northumberland and features the detective along with her partner Joe Ashworth. The Shetland series bring us DI Jimmy Perez, investigating in … [Read more...]

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Cora Harrison

September 6, 2015 by bookworm

Cora Harrison was a school principal before she wrote her two Austen - inspired novels written for young readers.She has since published twenty-six children's novels, among which “I was Jane Austen’s Best Friend” and the latest “Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend” both published by Macmillan UK. … [Read more...]

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