The Iris family lives in Johannesburg, Africa. Where you can “fall asleep with the faint roar of a lion or the laugh of a hyena coming across the lake.” Their story takes place in the Spring of 1966 and is described through the eyes of the youngest member, twelve-year-old
This review was published on 6/14/2006 at Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The complete review of Linzi Glass’s The Year the Gypsies Came can be read at SquidLit.
Under the Net was Iris Murdoch’s first novel published in 1954 and is one of Time Magazine’s 100 best novels of all time. Much is made of Murdoch’s philosophy background and how she married it with her fiction writing. And while I do find this present it doesn’t make the story any more or less…
Mr. Darcy, from Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, continues to be an icon for many readers and writers but most only know him from the perspective of Elizabeth Bennet. Would not it be nice to know Mr. Darcy’s point-of-view? Janet Aylmer, a long time Jane
If you didn’t know Jane Austen wrote a sequel to Emma, that’s because she didn’t. This sequel was written by Rachel Billington. The story opens a year after Emma’s marriage to Mr. Knightley with the couple still living at Hartfield with Mr. Woodhouse.
Her first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence garnered the Writer’s Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, the City of Toronto Book Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. With two novels published and an anthology she compiled and edited, it’s obvious
Book Review A Writer’s Guide to Persistence by Jordan Rosenfeld (official website) is a book on cultivating the writing craft, practicing consistency, and finishing strong (wherever your writing may lead you). It aims to be refreshing and encouraging without going too easy on you–you have no excuses not to be excellent in your writing practice!…