![]() ![]() 'Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 is invaluable for university staff, students, and the general reading public (of twentieth-century fiction). 'As an informed and witty companion to what people read and why, it is excellent.' - The Economist ![]() 'A big topic is tackled with some gusto in Bestsellers.One of the most consistently interesting things about this highly informed book is the extraordinary amount of detail along the way.' - Robert Giddings, Tribune For pleasure, and for study, Bestsellers will be a much-thumbed work of reference.' - Professor Dominic Head, Brunel University The book begins with a series of engaging and wide-ranging chapters on the principal publishing themes but the bulk of the work comprises a very full series of pen-portraits of the best-known popular authors. 'Clive Bloom's Bestsellers will be an invaluable resource for both the student and the general reader of twentieth-century popular fiction. This is an important book in its own right more importantly, it is a book that will be built on by other scholars in this expanding field of cultural exploration.' - Professor John Sutherland, University College London His book is, in my judgement, the first attempt to look systematically and comprehensively at both the product and the machinery of production and their respectively changing nature from decade to decade. 'Clive Bloom's critical survey represents a new level of organised response to the vast magma of fiction underlying the quality novel and canonical titles of the twentieth century. Bloom offers us an archaeology of best-selling fiction that is impressively researched, thoughtfully argued and immensely readable.' - David Finkelstein, Head of Media and Communication, Queen Margaret University College 'Clive Bloom delves incisively into the literary history of twentieth-century bestsellers, reminding us of the role popular authors such as Hall Caine, Marie Corelli, Dennis Wheatley and Catherine Cookson have played in sustaining not only the economic fortunes of British publishing, but also the social habits of a British mass reading public. Bloom also examines the changing publishing industry, the coming of book clubs and reading groups and the cult of the author. Looking beyond dubious publishers' statistics, Bloom has found that while Christie, du Maurier, Innes et al can be numbered with today's till-ringers such as Binchy, Collins and Welsh, so can such forgotten names as Dolf Wyllarde, Steve Francis and Sydney Horter. In July, Clive Bloom takes a longer view in Bestsellers: What the British have been Reading over the Last 100 Years and Why (Palgrave). The accompanying BBC book comes from John Sutherland. This book takes place in December 1853 and transitions into the first part of 1854.For the past few weeks, Reading the Decades has been providing welcome quality time on BBC2, throwing up surprising snatches of archive film (the rush to the shops after the Chatterley ban was lifted) and some equally surprising validations of writers long out of fashion - Carmen Callil and Germaine Greer both extolling the virtues of Georgette Heyer.Crisis (No More) 17 - In Which We Are Finally Finished.Crisis 16 - Out of the Flywaymen into the Fire.Crisis 14 - Not with a Bang but a Wicker.Crisis 6 - An Invitation to Dine In or On?.Crisis 5 - Sisters and Their Consequences.What will become of our proper young heroine when she puts her years of training to the test? Find out in this highly anticipated and thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Finishing School series!" What does the brusque werewolf dewan know? On whose side is the ever-stylish vampire Lord Akeldama? Only one thing is certain: a large-scale plot is under way, and when it comes to fruition, Sophronia must be ready to save her friends, her school, and all of London from disaster-in decidedly dramatic fashion, of course. When a dastardly Pickleman plot comes to fruition, only Sophronia can save her friends, her school and all of London. She would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored, and now she's not sure whom to trust. Archer Publisher's Summary The fourth and final book in a steampunk YA adventure series from Orbit's New York Times best-selling author of the Parasol Protectorate series. Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia's sweet sootie Soap nearby. This book is the fourth and final book in the Finishing School Series. ![]()
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