Posted in Entries by Emma, Fiction: children's, Fiction: general, Fiction: historical, Fiction: literary, Fiction: young adult, Uncategorized, tagged Emma Darwin, Antonia Forest, children's fiction, young adult fiction on July 10, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Perhaps it was inevitable that Antonia Forest should go out of fashion for a while. When you were born in 1915, put life on hold for war work, have your first novel published in 1948, and take the rest of a long life to write eight books about the same family, two books about their [...]
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Posted in Entries by Emma, Fiction: literary, Non-fiction: essays, Thursday Soapbox, tagged A Secret Alchemy, Add new tag, commercial fiction, Emma Darwin, Francis Spufford, genre fiction, Gilead, literary fiction, literary snobbery, Marilynn Robinson, The Mathematics of Love, Thursday Soapbox on June 5, 2008 | 52 Comments »
As a counterpoint to Clare Sudbery’s piece last week “In Praise of Popular Culture”, on the Soapbox this week we have the author of “The Mathematics of Love” and soon-to-be-released “A Secret Alchemy”, Bookfox Emma Darwin, putting the case for literary fiction.
Truffling Out the Riches by Emma Darwin
So, which way up is your literary snobbery? [...]
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The Mathematics of Love, by Emma Darwin (published by Headline Review) has had terrific print and blogosphere reviews and since the author just happens to be a Bookfox, Lisa and Leena set to work with their best Paxman-esque questions.
For Emma’s thoughts on historical fiction, sex and transgression, read on…
For Jackie’s Vulpes Libris review of The [...]
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Posted in Entries by Emma, Fiction: historical, Fiction: humour, Fiction: romance, Fiction: women's, tagged Emma's reviews, Georgette Heyer, humour, Regency, romance, Wodehouse on February 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Like most innovators, Georgette Heyer suffers by association with her imitators, descendants and plagiarists. But to dismiss her as all bonnets and heaving bosoms is like dismissing Wodehouse because he writes about toffs and pigs: both are peerless at what they do, and millions of readers have encountered these worlds, and settled down for good. [...]
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