Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £12.74 go to or call 03. The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler is published by Quercus (£14.99). It’s an anthology for browsing that will have readers scurrying into secondhand bookshops in search of yellowing, dog-eared paperbacks. Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections. The Book of Forgotten Authors is a bibliophile’s treat written with verve, diligence and the author’s evident passion. The Book of Forgotten Authors by Fowler, Christopher Book The Fast Free Shipping Genre. An essay devoted to forgotten Booker prize-winners should serve to temper the jubilation of future nominees while multiple tales of successful writers suddenly falling foul of publishing trends read all too appositely. Well researched and wide-ranging, there are some factual gems: that the author of Bambi sold the film rights to Disney for $1,000 that EM Delafield, famous for The Diary of a Provincial Lady, also wrote novels that “tackled lesbian feelings, real-life murder, alcoholism, family cruelties, adulteries and betrayals”. I n 99 potted biographies and 12 short essays, Christopher Fowler endeavours to exhume the names of more than 100 authors who he believes are unjustly forgotten.
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