Why a Booktrail?
Various times: Christopher Fowler’s foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves.
The Book of Forgotten Authors
What you need to know before your trail
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: including the now-vanished novels Walt Disney brought to the screen, the contemporary rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie who did not stand the test of time, and the women who introduced us to psychological suspense many decades before it conquered the world.
Locations
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The world is full of writers forgotten or yet to discover!
Margery Allingham – Ealing London
Allingham created the detective Albert Campion a. She was born in Ealing London in 1904. Visit the local Pitshanger Bookshop in the area
Virginia Andrews – Virginia
Her skill was to see the world through a child’s eyes. She wrote her first novel at the age of 55 which became the popular horror fairy story of Flowers in the Attic
Charlotte Armstrong – Vulcan , Michigan
She wrote for the Tv show Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the film director personally directed one of her stories. She wrote a specific kind of mystery – the female suspense tale.
R M Ballantyne – Edinburgh – Visit The Edinburgh Bookshop
The Scot who took readers to a South Pacific Island to meet three schoolboys marooned on an island there after a shipwreck
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