For our competition this month we stray a little from our usual set of questions taken from the lead feature, and instead we want our readers to let rip with their creative side. In “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”, Sherlock Holmes makes the famous aside about “the tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra”, a tale which was never recounted by Conan Doyle. Together with our sister magazine Writer’s News, we are asking our readers to make good for Doyle’s lapse, and submit 2,000 words of their own, describing this lost intriguing case. The winner will receive £200 and have their tale printed in the magazine. See details in the magazine or on this website.
February sees the publication of a new novel by Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow, his first for ten years. There is sure to be vast media coverage for this, and we take the opportunity to assess the career and collectability of a controversial figure some would argue to be the leading novelist of his generation.
John F. Kennedy was America’s greatest post-war President and a figure of myth. There is a very large body of work covering his life and also the creation of “Camelot” at the White House, and we give a full run-down on this remarkable man’s achievements.
Pearsons Magazine enjoyed a long run of success from the late Victorian era into the 1930s, and was the chief rival to the popular Strand Magazine. Where the Strand had Sherlock Holmes, Pearsons could boast of Kipling, among their stable of leading authors. Mike Ashley looks at the prices of bound and single volumes.
Djuna Barnes, the France-based American writer, is best known for her novel Nightwood, but she had a long and distinguished career and was much praised by T.S. Eliot. We look at this neglected woman author.More info >>
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Here, we assess Martin Amis' career and look at the prices his earlier novels fetch.MARTIN Amis is one of a group of writers who emerged in the early 1980’s to become the voice of young Britain.
Arguably, by the close of that decade he was the group’s most influential and innovative member. Quite an accomplishment since the others...
Book and Magazine Collector are delighted to offer our readers the exclusive opportunity to win a copy of Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction published by Cambridge University Press.
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