He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy. Read more
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Noel Coward’s Former Connecticut Estate Hits Market for $10.3 Million
The Georgian Revival on Sasco Hill Road was built in 1927 in Fairfield’s “Golden Age,” when wealthy New Yorkers started to summer in the town and built mansions in Sasco Hill, which overlooks the Southport Harbor. Read more
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Winston Churchill’s London Bachelor Pad Is Selling for £3.75 Million
Churchill moved into the Mayfair apartment in 1900 when he was 25 years old, leasing it from his cousin Charles “Sunny” Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, according to Wetherell, which is marketing the property along with Clifton Property Partners. Read more
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Peter Lovesey, a Master of British Whodunits, Is Dead at 88
He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a cantankerous and technology-averse detective. Read more
Where To Start With Terry Pratchett
Ten years on from his death and just before what would have been his 77th birthday, take a deep dive into the funny, fantasy works of one of the most loved British writers. Read more
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David Lodge, British Novelist Who Satirized Academic Life, Dies at 89
The author of 15 novels and more than a dozen nonfiction books as well as plays and screenplays, Mr. Lodge was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his work has been translated into dozens of languages. His best-known work, “Campus Trilogy,” dramatized the brief heyday of English literature as a discipline and the jet-setting lifestyle of its professoriate. Read more
Where To Start With Alan Garner
As the master of myth and fantasy turns 90 today it’s a good time to look at his wide ranging canon – from Booker-nominated novels to children’s fiction, poetry and essays. Read more
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C.J. Sansom, Best-Selling Author of Historical Mysteries, Dies at 71
C.J. Sansom, who transported millions of readers to 16th-century England with his erudite, psychologically complex mystery novels about Matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked lawyer turned investigator navigating political intrigue during the Tudor era, died April 27 at a hospice center near his longtime home in Brighton, England. Read more
British Novelist Christopher Priest Has Died
Acclaimed novelist best known for The Prestige whose large body of work never fitted into any particular literary mould. Read more
Newly Discovered String Quartet by Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess to Have Premiere
He is best-known as the author of A Clockwork Orange, his 1962 savage social satire, but Anthony Burgess saw himself primarily as a thwarted musician. Although self-taught, he was a prolific composer, and now a previously unknown piece for a string quartet is to receive its world premiere following its discovery. Read more
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