Related Research Articles
Patricia Mary W. Barker, is a British writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. In 2012, The Observer named the Regeneration Trilogy as one of "The 10 best historical novels".
Helen Oyeyemi FRSL is a British novelist and writer of short stories.
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter. She was the first woman to have a column in The Observer, which ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017. She was the first female rector of a university in Scotland. Her books include Cooking in a Bedsitter (1961).
Rachel Zadok is a South African writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee (2005). She is the author of the novels Gem Squash Tokoloshe and Sister-Sister.
Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment is a 2007 graphic novel by comics writer and artist Bryan Talbot. It explores the links between Lewis Carroll and the Sunderland area, with wider themes of history, myth and storytelling. It was described in a review by Michel Faber as a "gloriously ambitious mix of myth, history and autobiography", and by Rachel Cooke as "one the most exhilarating books read in years" and "a minor masterpiece".
Tahmima Anam is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.
Jason Cowley is an English journalist, magazine editor and writer. After working at the New Statesman, he became the editor of Granta in September 2007, while also remaining a writer on The Observer. He returned to the New Statesman as its editor in September 2008.
Patience Jean Gray was an English cookery and travel writer of the mid-20th century. Her two most popular books were Plats Du Jour (1957) – written with Primrose Boyd, about French cooking – and Honey From A Weed (1986), an account of the Mediterranean way of life.
Shena Mackay FRSL is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003 for Heligoland.
Philippa, Lady Perry, is a British integrative psychotherapist and author. She has written the graphic novel Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy (2010), How to Stay Sane (2012), The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (2019). The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don't) (2023).
Katharine Sophie Viner is a British journalist and playwright. She became the first female editor-in-chief at The Guardian on 1 June 2015, succeeding Alan Rusbridger. Viner previously headed The Guardian's web operations in Australia and the United States, before being selected for the editor-in-chief's position.
The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2011 four part television serial, adapted from Michel Faber's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White. Starring Romola Garai as Sugar and Chris O'Dowd as William Rackham, the drama aired in the UK during April 2011 on BBC Two. The supporting cast includes Shirley Henderson, Richard E. Grant and Gillian Anderson. Critical reviews of the drama were mixed but generally positive.
Footnotes in Gaza is a journalistic graphic narrative by Joe Sacco about bloody incidents between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza during the Suez Crisis. It was published in 2009 by Henry Holt and Company in the U.S. and Jonathan Cape in the UK.
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is a 2012 graphic novel written by Mary M. Talbot with artwork by her husband, Bryan Talbot. It is part memoir, and part biography of Lucia Joyce, daughter of modernist writer James Joyce.
The Vagenda was a feminist online magazine launched in January 2012. It used the tagline "Like King Lear, but for girls," taken from Grazia magazine's summary of the film The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep. The Vagenda was run by British journalists Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett; it was founded by ten London-based women journalists in their twenties and was then written by a large group of anonymous contributors from all over the world, both women and men. The editors stated: "the women's press is a large hadron collider of bullshit, and something needed to be done". Cosslett describes The Vagenda as "a media watchdog with a feminist angle". In its last issue, July 2015, it announced a 'summer hiatus' in publication.
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a 2014 graphic novel about a fictional suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot. In 2015, it was included in a list of the "top 10 books about revolutionaries" published by The Guardian.
Isabel Greenberg is a British graphic novelist and illustrator. Her first book, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, was published in 2013 by Jonathan Cape in the UK, Little Brown in the US and Random House in Canada.
Tessa Jane Hadley is a British author, who writes novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her writing is realistic and often focuses on family relationships. Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won the Hawthornden Prize, as well as one of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction. The Windham-Campbell judges describe her as "one of English's finest contemporary writers" and state that her writing "brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful." As of 2016, she is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.
On Women is a nonfiction book by Susan Sontag published in 2023. Sontag's second posthumously published essay collection after At the Same Time (2007), it was edited by her son David Rieff and features an introduction by Turkish-American writer Merve Emre. On Women includes essays and interviews with Sontag about feminism, beauty, aging, sexuality, and fascism.
Comica, the London International Comics Festival, was a comics festival held in London. Organized by Paul Gravett, the festival generally took place over a number of weeks. In the beginning, the festival's main venue was London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA); thus the name, "ComICA".
References
- ↑ "Cooke, Rachel". rcwlitagency.com. Rogers, Coleridge & White Literary Agents.
- ↑ Cooke, Rachel (5 December 2013). "What it means to be northern when you're Down South". New Statesman. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ↑ Cooke, Rachel (5 December 2013). "What it means to be northern when you're Down South". New Statesman .
- ↑ Cooke, Rachel (28 October 2012). "A conspiracy of silence allowed sexual harassment to stay routine". The Observer .
- ↑ Cooke, Rachel (22 December 2002). "Hope in the Holy Land". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ↑ Cooke, Rachel (28 March 2010). "The Lost Booker: a judge tells all". The Observer . Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ↑ "Authors vie for 'lost' 1970 Booker Prize". BBC News . 1 February 2010.
- ↑ "Graphic novel of the month | Books". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ↑ Huddleston, Yvette (7 February 2014). "Turning the Fifties myth on its head". The Yorkshire Post . Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ↑ "What it means to be northern when you're Down South". New Statesman . 5 December 2013.
- ↑ Whitehorn, Katharine (3 November 2013). "Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke – review". The Observer.
- ↑ Craig, Amanda (17 November 2013). "Book Review: Her Brilliant Career, By Rachel Cooke". The Independent.
- ↑ "Guardian is newspaper of the year". Press Gazette . 20 March 2006.
- ↑ "Top Award for Observer Writer". The Observer . 17 December 2006.
- ↑ Luft, Oliver (17 June 2010). "Empire named PPA consumer magazine of the year". Press Gazette.
- ↑ Stanford, Peter (4 January 2009). "Anthony Quinn: 'I can never go home again". The Independent . Archived from the original on 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Cooke, Rachel (15 July 2012). "The day I judged a Jewish food festival". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
