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ISBN: 9780746307052
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
This study covers a wide range of Doris Lessing's works, including all of the novels (from The Grass is Singing through The Golden Notebook to The Good Terrorist and The Fifth Child) and a representative selection of her non-fictional prose and sh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746311097
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
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ISBN: 9780746307793
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
A short, clear, critical study of David Hare's work for theatre, film and television, concentrating on questions of staging, performance and narrative and dramatic form.
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ISBN: 9780746310335
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
This book examines the work of Ama Ata Aidoo from the perspectives of her early writing in Ghana of the 1960s, her development of the short story genre in Ghana and West Africa, her travel writings, and the various stylistic ways she uses poetr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746312148
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed to and animated the major debates of the Victorian age. He became at once an arbiter of taste in his own times, and a trai... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746310960
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
This book brings together two of the most significant British women writers of the Romantic period, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams, and explores the poetics and politics of their work.

In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Hel... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746310786
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
A detailed critical study of the leading Indian novelist in English and a key figure in the development of a distinctive postcolonial literature.


This study covers all of Narayan's work, offering an accessible introduction to his l... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746311738
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
Martin Amis is one of the most important and distinctive writers of the last thirty years and his work continues to provoke controversy and debate. From his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973) to his most recent The Pr... .... Learn More