Christopher Fowler: The Book of Forgotten Authors

Name: Christopher Fowler: The Book of Forgotten Authors
Author: Fowler, Christopher
ISBN: 9781786484895

by Fowler, Christopher

ISBN: 9781786484895

Published: 2017

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Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites

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