'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK
'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR
AUTUMN 2017
'EXCELLENT . . . SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE WHO LOVES BOOKS' EVENING STANDARD
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: 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.
This is a book about books and their authors. It is for book lovers, and is
written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and
entertaining guide.
'A BIBLIOPHILE'S DREAM' FINANCIAL TIMES
'WILL HAVE READERS SCURRYING INTO SECONDHAND BOOKSHOPS' GUARDIAN
'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR
AUTUMN 2017
'EXCELLENT . . . SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE WHO LOVES BOOKS' EVENING STANDARD
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: 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.
This is a book about books and their authors. It is for book lovers, and is
written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and
entertaining guide.
'A BIBLIOPHILE'S DREAM' FINANCIAL TIMES
'WILL HAVE READERS SCURRYING INTO SECONDHAND BOOKSHOPS' GUARDIAN
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