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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.John Llewellyn Rhys Prize "John Llewellyn Rhys Prize" . Booktrust. Retrieved 29 January 2011. Established in 1942, it was one of the oldest literary awards in the UK. Since 2011, the award has been suspended by funding problems. The last award was in 2010.Alison Flood [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mail On Sunday
''The Mail on Sunday'' is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. Founded in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it is the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the UK. Its sister paper, the ''Daily Mail'', was first published in 1896. In July 2011, following the closure of the '' News of the World'', ''The Mail on Sunday'' sold 2.5 million copies a week—making it Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper—but by September that had fallen back to just under 2 million. Like the ''Daily Mail'', it is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), but the editorial staffs of the two papers are entirely separate. It had an average weekly circulation of 1,284,121 in December 2016; this had fallen to 673,525 by December 2022. In April 2020, the Society of Editors announced that the ''Mail on Sunday'' was the winner of the Sunday Newspaper of the Year for 2019. History ''The Mail on Sunday'' was launched on 2 May 1982 to complement the ''Daily Mail'', the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystic Masseur (novel)
''The Mystic Masseur'' is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul. It is set in colonial Trinidad and was published in London in 1957. The novel is about a frustrated writer of Indian descent who rises from an impoverished background to become a successful politician on the back of his dubious talent as a ' mystic' masseur — a masseur who can cure illnesses. Plot summary ''The Mystic Masseur'' follows the life of Ganesh Ramsumair, a Trinidadian of Indian heritage. As a young man, Ganesh attends a training college for teachers, and after graduation, he begins working as a primary school teacher in the Port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital. However, he quickly loses interest in this profession and returns to his hometown of Fourways, where he learns that his father has just died. Ganesh plans to be either a writer or a professional masseur, and he befriends a local shop owner named Ramlogan. Ramlogan has a 16-year-old daughter named Leela, and Leela and Ganesh soon marry. After the weddin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000. Events *February – The bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid takes over the ''Teatro Gran Splendid'' in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space. *February 13 – The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip by Charles M. Schulz is published. Schulz died on February 12. *March 14 – Stephen King's novella '' Riding the Bullet'' is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book. * September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, ''The Accused''. *December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, '' Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice)'', the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghostwritten (novel)
''Ghostwritten'' is the first novel published by English author David Mitchell. Published in 1999, it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was widely acclaimed. The story takes place mainly around East Asia, but also moves through Russia, Britain, the US and Ireland. It is written episodically; each chapter details a different story and central character, although they are all interlinked through seemingly coincidental events. Many of the themes from ''Ghostwritten'' continue in Mitchell's subsequent novels, ''number9dream'' and ''Cloud Atlas'', and a character later appears in '' The Bone Clocks.'' ''Ghostwritten'' is the product of a number of influences, particularly from East Asian culture and superstition, as well as real events remodelled for plot purposes (e.g. the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway). There are also hints and references to other works, most prominently from Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics towards the end of the book, as well as ''Wild Swa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclipse Of The Sun (novel)
''Eclipse of the Sun'' is the debut novel by English author Phil Whitaker. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1997, a Betty Trask Award in 1998, and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards, 1997 Whitbread First Novel Award. Plot Introduction Set in a small Indian town in 1995 where Rajesh Deshpande, an insecure, isolated science teacher is smitten by the new English tutor, but struggles to find a way to meet her. Then he learns about the Solar eclipse of October 24, 1995, forthcoming solar eclipse which appears to provide the ideal opportunity to impress her. Meanwhile, his faithful but superstitious wife Sumila determines to restore his love for her with the help of the Hindu gods and under the counsel of her overbearing mother. Reception Mary Loudon writing in ''The Times'' states that despite never having been to India, the author "has managed with exquisite sensitivity to capture the feel and the tone of the country." Loudon does criticize the novels 'lack of pac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Carve Up! (novel)
''What a Carve Up!'' is a satire, satirical novel by Jonathan Coe, published in the UK by Viking Press in April 1994. It was published in the United States by Alfred A Knopf in January 1995 under the title ''The Winshaw Legacy: or, What a Carve Up!'' Synopsis The novel concerns the political and social environment in Britain during the 1980s, and covers the period up to the beginning of aerial bombardment against Iraq in the Gulf War, first Gulf War in January 1991. It is a critique of British politics under the Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher (and, briefly, John Major) and of the ways in which national policy was seen to be dictated by the concerns of narrow, but powerful, interest groups with influence in banking, the media, agriculture, healthcare, the arms trade and the arts. Coe creates the fictitious Winshaw family to embody these different interests under one name and, ultimately, one roof. Plot summary Godfrey, son of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Ice-Cream War
''An Ice-Cream War'' (1982) is a black comedy war novel by Scottish author William Boyd. It was nominated for a Booker Prize in the year of its publication. The title is derived from a quotation in a letter (not included in the American editions of the book). Synopsis The story focuses on the East African Campaign fought between British and German forces during World War I, and how it affects several people whose paths converge. The first character introduced is Temple Smith (Walter Smith in the US edition), an American expatriate who runs a successful sisal plantation in British East Africa near Mount Kilimanjaro. Before war breaks out in August 1914, Smith is on cordial terms with his German half-English neighbour, Erich von Bishop. Smith even shops for coffee plant seedlings at the botanical garden in the capital of German East Africa, Dar es Salaam. Major von Bishop burns Smith's sisal and linseed plantation in the opening campaign of the Great War, and then dismantles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Jeal
John Julian Timothy Jeal, known as Tim Jeal (born 27 January 1945), is a British biographer of notable Victorians and is also a novelist. His publications include a memoir and biographies of David Livingstone (1973), Lord Baden-Powell (1989), and Sir Henry Morton Stanley (2007). Early life Tim Jeal was born in London, 27 January 1945 to civil servant Clifford Freeman Jeal and Norah Margaret Sabine, daughter of Sir Thomas Edward Sabine Pasley, 3rd Baronet, and Constance Wilmot Annie Hastings, daughter of the 14th Earl of Huntingdon. Jeal was educated at Westminster School, London, and Christ Church, Oxford. Clifford Jeal, about whom his son published a memoir in 2004, was a Christian mystic and follower of the Anglican Order Of The Cross fellowship and as such practised pacifism and vegetarianism. Jeal is married to Joyce Jeal and they have three daughters. Career Television From 1966 to 1970, he worked for BBC Television in the features group. Writing Jeal has been writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Albatross (novella)
''The Albatross'' is a novella written by Susan Hill, first appearing in the collection ''The Albatross and Other Stories'' published by Hamish Hamilton in 1971. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1972. It appeared as a standalone book published by Penguin Books in 2000. It is studied in GCSE English as an example of the best of modern women's writing. Plot introduction ''The Albatross'' centers around Duncan, an intellectually disabled 18-year-old who has grown up with his domineering wheelchair-using mother in Heype, a Suffolk seaside town based on Aldeburgh.Author's afterword in the 2000 Penguin edition of the book Duncan finds it difficult to cope with anything outside his daily routine but is forced to interact with the wider world when his claustrophobic relationship with his mother reaches a breaking point. Inspiration The story was partly inspired by local composer Benjamin Britten's opera ''Peter Grimes ''Peter Grimes'', Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fireflies (novel)
''Fireflies'' is a novel by Shiva Naipaul originally published in 1970. It was his first book, a comic novel set in Trinidad. In an essay in An Unfinished Journey, Naipaul described how in 1968 as a final year student at Oxford University studying Chinese, he had been moved to write down a sentence, which proved to be the beginning of his first novel, which he then worked on for the next two years. The novel was hailed on publication, winning the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Writer Martin Amis Sir Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and '' London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Mem ... said of ''Fireflies'' References {{1970s-novel-stub 1970 novels Novels set in Trinidad and Tobago John Llewellyn Rhys Prize–winning works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The People's War
Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder (5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008) was a Scottish writer, historian, and poet. Initially studying English literature, he became interested in political history and wrote a landmark study on Britain during the Second World War in 1969 entitled ''The People's War''. He subsequently wrote several other historical works but turned to literature and poetry and worked primarily as a writer, though often holding a number of university teaching positions. A socialist and Scottish nationalist, he was a prominent Scottish public intellectual during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Angus Calder was born in London on 5 February 1942 into a prominent left-wing family from Scotland. His father was Ritchie Calder (1906–1982), a noted socialist and pacifist who became famous for his work as a journalist and science writer. His siblings are Nigel Calder, mathematician Allan Calder, educationist Isla Calder (1946–2000) and teacher Fiona Rudd (née Calder). His nephew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Millstone (novel)
''The Millstone'' is a novel by Margaret Drabble, first published in 1965. It is about an unmarried, young academic who becomes pregnant after a one-night stand and, against all odds, decides to give birth to her child and raise it herself. Title Drabble has acknowledged the source of the title to be in Christ's words: "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6). The parallel between Christ's words and the plot of the novel is established through the innocent though illegitimate baby, Octavia, the "little one", who is subject to harm, her congenital heart defect rendering her vulnerable in the extreme. Christ's warning of punishment to would-be agents of harm is echoed in the fiercely loving protectiveness of Rosamund, the child's mother. ''The Millstone'', Drabble said in 2011, is about how maternity "changes you into something fierc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |