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Beth O'Leary
Beth Alice O'Leary (born May 1992) is an English author of romantic comedy novels. Her first novel ''The Flatshare'' (2019), sold over a million copies, is available in over 30 languages and was nominated for a Comedy Women in Print Prize. Since then she has published four more books, namely: ''The Switch'', ''The Road Trip'', ''The No-Show'' and ''The Wake-Up Call''; with her upcoming sixth novel, ''Swept Away'', set to be published in Spring 2025. Life and career O'Leary was born in West London and grew up in Winchester, the youngest of six children. Her family also fostered children, so there were often more than her five siblings in the house. She has some Irish heritage. O'Leary attended the Westgate School and Peter Symonds College. She graduated from St John's College, Oxford in 2010 with a degree in English. O'Leary is an introvert and often used reading as an escape from the activity of life. She loved to visit her local library, which she still visits today. She cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. It is bordered by Shepherd's Bush to the north, Kensington to the east, Chiswick to the west, and Fulham to the south, all on the north bank of the River Thames. The area is one of west London's main commercial and employment centres, and has for some decades been a major centre of London's Polish minority in United Kingdom, Polish community. It is a major transport hub for west London, with two London Underground stations and a bus and coach station at Hammersmith Broadway. Toponymy Hammersmith may mean "(Place with) a hammer smithy or forge", although, in 1839, Thomas Faulkner (topographer), Thomas Faulkner proposed that the name derived from two 'Saxon' words: the initial ''Ham'' from List of generic forms in place names in Ireland an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount+
Paramount+ (formerly known as CBS All Access in the United States and 10 All Access in Australia) is an American Video on demand#Subscription models, subscription video on-demand Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Streaming media, streaming service owned by Paramount Global. The service's content is drawn primarily from the List of libraries owned by Paramount Global, libraries of CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Smithsonian Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, Showtime (TV network), Showtime, and Paramount Pictures. It also shows original series and films, live streaming Broadcasting of sports events, sports coverage, and in the United States, live streaming of CBS News and Stations, local CBS television stations. The service was launched by CBS Corporation in the United States in 2014, as CBS All Access, initially focusing on the live streaming of CBS programming from its local affiliates, as well as on-demand access to CBS programs and library content. The servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Gayle
Mike Gayle (born October 1970) is an English journalist and novelist. Biography Gayle was born in Quinton, Birmingham, to parents from Jamaica, and is the younger brother of broadcaster Phil Gayle. He attended Lordswood Boys' School where he was Head Boy. He studied Sociology and Journalism at university. Gayle edited a music fanzine and joined a Birmingham listings magazine before moving to London and beginning a postgraduate diploma in journalism. Before having his first novel published, he was a features editor and later an agony aunt for ''Just Seventeen'' and ''Bliss''. As a freelance journalist he has written for the ''Sunday Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', the ''Daily Express'', '' FHM'', ''More!'', ''The Scotsman'' and ''Top of the Pops''. Gayle is a chick-lit author, although he has expressed a dislike for the term. Alongside Tony Parsons and Tim Lott, he has also been associated with a "new wave of fictions about inadequate young British masculinities" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pride And Prejudice
''Pride and Prejudice'' is the second published novel (but third to be written) by English author Jane Austen, written when she was age 20-21, and later published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. Her father Mr Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters, but his property is entailed and can only be passed to a male heir. His wife lacks an inheritance, so his family faces becoming poor upon his death. Thus, it is imperative that at least one of the daughters marry well to support the others, which is a primary motivation driving the plot. ''Pride and Prejudice'' has consistently appeared near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public. It has become one of the most popular nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. She made a name for herself with her first book series, '' The Song of the Lioness'' (1983–1988), which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Pierce won the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association in 2013, citing her two quartets '' Song of the Lioness'' and '' Protector of the Small'' (1999–2002). The annual award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". Pierce's books have been translated into twenty languages. Early life and education Pierce was born in South Connellsville, Pennsylvania in Fayette County, on December 13, 1954 to Wayne and Mary Lou Pierce. Her mother wanted to name her "Tamara" but the nurse who fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and Satire, satirist, best known for the ''Discworld'' series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, apocalyptic comedy novel ''Good Omens'' (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Pratchett's first novel, ''The Carpet People'', was published in 1971. The first ''Discworld'' novel, ''The Colour of Magic'', was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final ''Discworld'' novel, ''The Shepherd's Crown'', was published in August 2015, five months after his death. With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was Knight Bachelor, knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister (born 28 February 1985) is a British author, known for seven novels, all which have been bestsellers. Her works have been translated into 40 languages. Several of her novels have been optioned for television and film. Her works include ''Everything But The Truth'' (2017), ''Anything You Do Say'' (published as The Choice in North America), ''No Further Questions'' (published as ''The Good Sister'' in North America), ''The Evidence Against You'', ''How To Disappear'', and ''That Night'' which was a Richard & Judy book club pick and "Wrong Place Wrong Time" which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times bestseller. Life and career McAllister was born in Sutton Coldfield and raised in Tamworth. After attending Belgrave High School in Tamworth (now known as Tamworth Enterprise College) and receiving A-Levels, McAllister read English at the University of Birmingham, receiving a 2:1 BA Hons. She then converted to law, stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics, and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today is most commonly associated with ''Castle Rackrent'', her first novel, in which she adopted an Irish Catholics, Irish Catholic voice to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish class. Life Early life Maria Edgeworth was born in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. She was the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (who eventually fathered twenty-two surviving child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and Social criticism, social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John Dickens, John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years; wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles; lectured and performed Penny reading, readings extensively; was a tireless letter writer; and campaigned vigor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Austen
Jane Austen ( ; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for #List of works, her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are implicit critiques of the sentimental novel, novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of social commentary, realism, wit, and irony have earned her acclaim amongst critics and scholars. Austen wrote major novels before the age of 22, but she was not published until she was 35. The anonymously published ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1811), ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1813), ''Mansfield Park'' (1814), and ''Emma (novel), Emma'' (1816) were modest successes, but they brought her little fame in her lifetime. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Nicholls (writer)
David Alan Nicholls (born 30 November 1966''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England and Wales, 1837–2006''. 6B. p. 1327.) is a British novelist and screenwriter. Initially an actor after graduating college, he became a screenwriter, notably creating ''Rescue Me'' and adaptations of novels, plays, and memoirs. He is the author of six novels. Early life and education Nicholls is the middle of three siblings. He attended Barton Peveril College at Eastleigh, Hampshire, taking A-levels in Drama, English Literature, Physics and Biology. He took part in college drama productions, playing a wide range of roles. In 1988, he received a BA in drama and English from the University of Bristol. Later, he trained as an actor at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. First career Throughout his 20s, he worked as an actor, using the stage name David Holdaway. He played small roles at various theatres, including the West Yorkshire Playhouse and, for a three-year peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Keyes
Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish author and radio presenter. She is principally known for her popular fiction. Keyes became known for her novels ''Watermelon'', '' Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married'', ''Rachel's Holiday'', ''Last Chance Saloon'', ''Anybody Out There'', and ''This Charming Man'', which, although written in a light and humorous style, cover themes including alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement, and domestic violence. More than 35 million copies of her novels have been sold, and her works have been translated into 33 languages. Her writing has won both the Irish Popular Fiction Book and the Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year, each on one occasion, at the Irish Book Awards. Biography Keyes comes from a large family, with many siblings. She was born in Limerick and raised in Cork, Galway, and in Monkstown, County Dublin. She graduated from University College Dublin with a law degree, and after completing her studies, she took an ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
