Anthologies
From First love to Farewells, this book contains the full gamut of emotions inspired by poetry's most popular subject: love. Meet the romantics and the unromantics, the obsessed and the fainthearted, the tragic and the comic, in all their lyrical glory. Antonia Fraser has made a touching, canny and diverse selection of poems from the fifteenth century to the present day, from ballads to sonnets to modern verse. Included alongside well-known masters like Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, are contemporary poets such as Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside and Carol Ann Duffy, illuminating the ways of the heart in all its forms.
A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the letters for their emotional power, or state of love expressed. The categories include Passions, Ecstasies, Fears and Worries, Declarations and Farewells. The anthology includes both the obvious (Byron, Keats, Abelard and Heloise) and the anonymous (a Japanese wife whose husband is in battle, a soldier in the trenches).
Murdoch, I. Something special.-- Brooke-Rose, C. Go when you see the green man walking.-- Tindall, G. A true story.-- Fraser, A. Doctor Zeit-- Stubbs, J. Someone dear to me.-- Beckwith, L. Tinker's wedding.-- Rubens, B. The blood of the lamb.-- Christie, A. The gypsy.-- Ross, M. The man across the river.-- Bowen, E. The apple tree.-- Wade, R. A crowded room.-- Freeman, G. The changeling.
An anthology of crime stories commissioned by the Detection Club in celebration of Julian Symons' 80th birthday. As a tribute to Symons' contribution to the world of crime fiction, Peter Lovesey, Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Len Deighton and others have written a short story in his honour.
A collection of mystery stories by noted female authors includes contributions by Amanda Cross, Mary Higgins Clark, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Antonia Fraser, Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Joan Hess. Reprint.
In this delightful collection, forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend, and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.
A collection of stories about crime-solving women includes works by Amanda Cross, Sue Grafton, Susan Dunlap, Faye Kelllerman, Antonia Fraser, and Sara Paretsky.
A crime-lover's collection of short stories includes works by such notable authors as Robert Barnard, Antonia Fraser, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey, Sue Grafton, Ellis Peters, and Tony Hillerman. Reprint.
Combines women's issues with suspenseful plots in a collection of mystery stories featuring women detectives, amateur sleuths, cops, journalists, and spies--including contributions from Amanda Cross, Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess, Marcis Muller, Ruth Rendell, and several emerging new writers.
""Cops on the Box"" have been among the most popular series on television for many years. From the days of Edgar Lustgarten's Scotland Yard by way of Softly, Softly; Maigret; The Professionals and more recently, New Columbo, these stories of crime busters battling to bring criminals to justice have proved to be enormously popular with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection brings together for the first time a number of the short stories on which these series were based, most by writers whose names are now automatically linked with the genre, including such legendary authors from the past as George Harmon Coxe and Elwyn Jones to current leading contributors like Dick Francis and Ruth Rendell. This is a book for all fans of detective fiction -- as well as enthusiasts of TV crime series.
A collection of fifteen short stories by today's best-known women mystery writers features a complete range of mystery genres that involve female characters as private eyes, cops, amateur sleuths, journalists, and spies.
Meet the romantics and the unromantics, the passionate and the fainthearted, the tragic and the comic, in all their lyrical glory. This anthology explores the full range of emotions inspired by poetry's most popular subject: love. Antonia Fraser has made a touching, inspired, and wonderfully diverse selection. Poems range from the 15th century to the present, from ballads to sonnets to modern verse. Included alongside well-known classics by Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson, are contemporary poems by Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside, and Carol Ann Duffy, illuminating the ways of the heart in all its forms.