Hunstanton is a seaside town in Norfolk, England, which had a population of 4,229 at the 2011 Census. It faces west across The Wash. Hunstanton lies 102 miles (164 km) north-north-east of London and 40 miles (64 km) north-west of Norwich.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1947.
Madison Smartt Bell is an American novelist. While established as a writer by several early novels, he is especially known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published 1995–2004.
Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope, was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), observations from a trip to the United States, is the best known.
Leslie Poles Hartley was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–1947) and The Go-Between (1953). The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973.
Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
The Clayhanger Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918. Though the series is commonly referred to as a "trilogy", and the first three novels were published in a single volume, as The Clayhanger Family, in 1925, there are actually four books. All four are set in the "Five Towns", Bennett's thinly disguised version of the six towns of the Staffordshire Potteries.
The Gorse Trilogy is a series of three novels, the last published works of the author Patrick Hamilton. The stories follow the anti-hero Ernest Ralph Gorse, whose heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles his victims. He is thought to have been based on the real-life con-man and murderer Neville George Heath, who was executed in 1946.
Man and Maid is a lost 1925 drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger based on a 1922 novel by Elinor Glyn. The film stars Lew Cody, Renée Adorée and Harriet Hammond.
Benjamin Allen H. "Ben" Winters is an American author. He is best known for mystery/sci-fi novels such as The Last Policeman and Underground Airlines, and for creating the CBS show Tracker.
Ecce and Old Earth is a 1991 science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, the second novel in the Cadwal Chronicles trilogy, set in Vance's Gaean Reach. It follows Araminta Station (1987) and precedes Throy (1992).
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Poor Clare is a 1968 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. After inheriting some fine works of art from his aunt, a composer surprises everyone when he gives them away to his friends, leading all to wonder if there is some ulterior motive.
The Harness Room is a 1971 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. A retired colonel about to remarry decides that his seventeen-year-old son needs toughening up and while away on his honeymoon has his chauffeur, an ex-guardsman to instruct him in boxing and other sports in the harness room. The two men come to develop a bond.
The Betrayal is a 1966 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. It is a sequel to his 1964 work The Brickfield in which an elderly novelist recounts the experiences of his life for his memoirs.
The Will and the Way is a 1973 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. It was his final novel, published posthumously following his death in 1972.
My Sisters' Keeper is a 1970 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley.
The Boat is a 1949 novel by British writer L.P. Hartley. An English writer returns home from Venice, and takes residence in a house by a river where he can indulge his passion in rowing.
Simonetta Perkins is a 1925 novella by the British writer L. P. Hartley. A young Bostonian woman visiting Venice with her overbearing mother quickly tires of her fellow American tourists and begins to fixate on a handsome gondolier.
The Hireling is a 1957 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. A widowed aristocrat bonds with the ex-soldier who drives his own car in a chauffeur service.
