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Chickenfeed Minette Walters
Chickenfeed by Minette Walters Chickenfeed Minette Walters 1 Chickenfeed by Minette Walters Contents Briefly about the book 3 Information about Minette Walters 4 Tell me a story 5 Take a letter 7 Is truth stranger than fiction? 9 Further development 11 More reading 12 Adult Core Curriculum References 13 Acknowledgement The learning materials to accompany the Quick Reads publications have been produced as part of The Vital Link’s Reading for Pleasure campaign, funded by the Department for Education and Skills and in co-operation with World Book Day. Our thanks go to the writing and editorial team of Nancy Gidley, Kay Jackaman and Moreen Mowforth. www.vitallink.org.uk 2 Chickenfeed by Minette Walters Blurb Minette Walters brings a thrilling interpretation to a real-life mystery. Young Norman Roche finds himself in an untenable situation...but does he resort to murder to escape Elsie's clutches? Synopsis Chickenfeed is based on the true story of the two-year correspondence between Elsie in ‘chicken farm murder’, which took place in London and Norman in Sussex, where he has Blackness Road, Crowborough, East Sussex in bought a poultry farm and is trying to December, 1924. Although Norman Thorne establish himself as a chicken farmer. The never confessed to killing his girlfriend, Elsie lovers gradually grow apart. Elsie refuses to Cameron, he was tried and hanged for the accept the changes and creates a fantasy to crime. replace the reality of their dwindling relationship, while Norman has met someone Minette Walters’ fictionalised account of their else but finds it hard to tell Elsie that he no relationship is told from the points of view of longer wants to marry her. -
Highlights Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 Highlights
Highlights Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 Highlights Welcome to our 2018 International Book Rights Highlights For more information please go to our website to browse our shelves and find out more about what we do and who we represent. Contents Fiction Literary/Upmarket Fiction 1 - 10 Crime, Suspense, Thriller 11 - 24 Historical Fiction 25 - 26 Women’s Fiction 27 - 32 Non-Fiction Philosophy 33 - 36 Memoir 37 - 38 History 39 - 44 Science and Nature 45 - 47 Upcoming Publications 48 - 49 Reissues 50 Prize News 51 Film & TV news 52 Sub-agents 53 Primary Agents US Rights: Veronique Baxter; Jemima Forrester; Georgia Glover; Anthony Goff (AG); Andrew Gordon (AMG); Jane Gregory; Lizzy Kremer; Harriet Moore; Caroline Walsh Film & TV Rights: Clare Israel; Nicky Lund; Penelope Killick; Georgina Ruffhead Translation Rights Alice Howe: [email protected] Direct: France; Germany Claire Morris: [email protected] Direct: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Italy; the Netherlands; Norway; Sweden Emma Jamison: [email protected] Direct: Brazil; Portugal; Spain and Latin America Sub-agented: Poland Emily Randle: [email protected] Direct: Croatia; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Slovenia Subagented: China; Hungary, Japan; Korea; Russia; Taiwan; Turkey; Ukraine Margaux Vialleron: [email protected] Direct: Arabic; Albania; Greece; Israel; Macedonia, Vietnam plus miscellaneous requests. Audio in France and Germany Sub-agented: Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Indonesia; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Thailand Contact t: +44 (0)20 7434 5900 f: +44 (0)20 7437 1072 www.davidhigham.co.uk The Black Prince Anthony Burgess & Adam Roberts A novel by Adam Roberts, adapted from an original script by Anthony Burgess ‘I’m working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in Edward II’s time .. -
Gregory & Company
GREGORY & COMPANY AUTHORS’ AGENTS 3, BARB MEWS, LONDON W6 7PA TELEPHONE: 020 7610 4676 FAX: 020 7610 4686 WEBSITE: www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk EMAIL: [email protected] Rights Enquiries: Jane Gregory - UK, US, Film & TV: [email protected] Claire Morris – Translation: [email protected] Translation Rights (Highlights) Frankfurt 2015 For further information about our authors and their backlists, do visit our website www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk BAUER, Belinda Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa. She has worked as a journalist and screenwriter, and her script for THE LOCKER ROOM earned her the Carl Foreman/ Bafta Award for Young British Screenwriters. With her first novel BLACKLANDS, Belinda won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year in 2010. Her next two novels, DARKSIDE and FINDERS KEEPERS, were also highly acclaimed, and in 2012 she was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for her entire body of work. This year her 2015 novel THE SHUT EYE is shortlisted for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger. RUBBERNECKER won the 2014 Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year Award, which Belinda was shortlisted for again this year with her novel THE FACTS OF LIFE AND DEATH. Belinda is currently working on her seventh novel. THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD TV crime reporter Eve Singer’s flagging career is revived by a spate of bizarre murders – each one in public and advertised like an exhibition. When the perpetrator contacts Eve to discuss her coverage of his crimes, she is suddenly on the inside of the biggest serial killer investigation of the decade. -
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TURN MIDNIGHT The of Bh2985M-ReadingCopies.indd i 15/05/18 11:28 AM MinetteMinette Walters Walters is one is theof the critically world’s acclaimed best-selling and crime interna- writers. tionallyShe is the bestselling author of author thirteen of novels,suspense winning novels, the including CWA JohnThe CreaseyDevil’s Feather Award, Thefor TheSculptress Ice House and, Acidthe Edgar Row. She Allan is the Poe Awardrecipient in America of an forEdgar The Award Sculptress and and two two CWA CWA Gold Gold Dagger Daggers forawards, The Scold’s among Bridle other and awards. Fox Evil The. The Turn Turn of Midnightof Midnight is theis the sequal to The Last Hours, published in 2017. She lives in Dorset sequel to The Last Hours, published in 2017. She lives in with her husband. Dorset with her husband. Publicity enquiries Tel: 020 7269 0246 Fax: 020 7430 0916 Email: [email protected] Sales: Clive Kintoff Tel: 020 7269 0249 Fax: 020 7430 0916 Email: [email protected] Atlantic Books Ormond House, 26–27 Boswell Street, London, WC1N 3JZ Tel: 020 7269 1610 Fax: 020 7430 0916 Email: [email protected] Bh2985M-ReadingCopies.indd ii 15/05/18 11:28 AM Minette Walters is the critically acclaimed and interna- tionally bestselling author of suspense novels, including The Devil’s Feather, The Sculptress and Acid Row. She is the MINETTE recipient of an Edgar Award and two CWA Gold Dagger awards, among other awards. The Turn of Midnight is the sequel to The Last Hours, published in 2017. -
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Grove Press Atlantic Monthly Press Black Cat The Mysterious Press Granta SPRING SUMMER 2012 Winter 2012 JEANETTE WINTERSON BACKLIST To coincide with the publication of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Grove Press has commissioned new artwork by award-winning illustrator Olaf Hajek for the best-selling Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion, and Sexing the Cherry. Sexing the Cherry (978-0-8021-3578-0 • $14.95 • USO) eBook ISBN: 978-0-8021-9870-9 The Passion (978-0-8021-3522-3 • $14.95 • USO) eBook ISBN: 978-8021-9871-6 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (978-0-8021-3516-2 • $14.95 • USO) eBook ISBN: 978-0-8021-9872-3 MARCH 2012 “A highly unusual, scrupulously honest, and endearing memoir.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (978-0-8021-2010-6 • $25.00 • USO) eBook ISBN: 978-0-8021-9475-6 GROVE PRESS HARDCOVERS APRIL From the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award–winning author of the best-selling novel Man Gone Down comes a deeply personal, explosive memoir told through the stories of four generations of black American men in one family THE BROKEN KING A Memoir Michael Thomas Man Gone Down was: • One of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books eviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review and chosen of the Year as one of their Ten Best Books of 2008 before winning the IMPAC • Winner of the International R Dublin Literary Award, Man Gone Down introduced a new writer of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award prodigious and rare talent. -
Mystery Fiction Workshop Resource List OLA Readers’ Advisory Symposium Presented By: Marg Chambers, Amy Colson, Mary Dasilva, Diana Krawczyk, Rob Morrison
The Butler Did It!: Mystery Fiction Workshop Resource List OLA Readers’ Advisory Symposium Presented by: Marg Chambers, Amy Colson, Mary DaSilva, Diana Krawczyk, Rob Morrison Classic Mystery Writers Hag’s Nook (Dr. Gideon Fell) by John Dickson Carr 1933 The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe) by Raymond Chandler 1939 The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton 1911 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie 1934 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1860 A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 1930 Death at the President’s Lodging (John Appleby) by Michael Innes 1936 A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn) by Ngaio Marsh 1934 “Murders in the Rue Morgue” Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 1841 The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen 1929 Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers 1923 Fer-de-lance (Nero Wolfe) by Rex Stout 1934 The Man in the Queue (Alan Grant) by Josephine Tey 1929 Bestselling Authors Black Echo (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly 1992 Postmortem (Dr. Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell 1990 One for the Money (Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich 1994 A is for Alibi (Kinsey Milhone) by Sue Grafton 1982 Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen 1989 A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh) by P. D. James 1963 When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware) by Jonathan Kellerman 1985 Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins) by Walter Mosley 1990 Deadlock (V. I. Warshawski) by Sara Paretsky 1984 The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson 1976 The Cater Street Hangman (Thomas & Charlotte Pitt) by Anne Perry1979 The Ice House by Minette Walters 1992 Hard-boiled Mysteries - Classics The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. -
821.111.09-312.9 Lewis MG GOTHIC ELEMENTS in CONTEMPORARY DETECTIVE STORY
UDK 821.111.09-312.4 Walters M.:821.111.09-312.9 Lewis M. G. GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY DETECTIVE STORY: MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS AND MINETTE WALTERS COMPARED Vesna Marinko Abstract One of the most shocking Gothic novels was written by Matthew Gregory Lewis in 1796. His Gothic novel The Monk contains all the typical Gothic elements such as a ruined castle, aggressive villain, women in distress, the atmosphere of terror and horror and a lot more. This article analyses and compares to what extent the Gothic elements of the late J8lh century survived in the contemporary detec tiJ'e _!itQry The keHouse {1993) written by Minette Walters and how these elements have changed. Today the detective story is very popular with readers searching for mystery, sus pense and thrill because "it often begins with an unsolved crime of some sort" (Rzepka 2005: 9). The readers are challenged by the fact that nobody knows whodunit and they are sure they will beat the detective of the story and find the 'doer' before the detective does. But many fans are unaware of the fact that the origins of the detective story come from the late 18th century Gothic world of horror and terror. The Gothic period started before the first Gothic novel appeared in 1764 when Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto and coincided with the period of Ro manticism which started in the late 18th century (Frank 1987: xix). The Monk was not one of the first Gothic novels but definitely one of the most shocking ones because it was "inverted, parodied, or exaggerated the features it cannibalized" (Miles 2002: 53). -
DHA Classics 2020
Spring 2020 CLASSIC HIGHLIGHTS Contents For more information please go to our website to browse our shelves and find out more about what we do and who we represent. Writing from the Continent pp 4-7 History pp 9-12 Classic Crime pp14-19 Speculative and Science-Fiction pp 21-24 Horror and Adventure pp 26-28 Re-issues and new editions pp 29-31 Film and TV news pp 32-34 Agents UK & US Rights: Veronique Baxter, Georgia Glover, Anthony Goff, Andrew Gordon, Jane Gregory, Lizzy Kremer, Caroline Walsh Film & TV Rights: Clare Israel, Penelope Killick, Nicky Lund, Georgina Ruffhead Translation Rights: Emma Jamison: [email protected] Adult estates titles in all languages Allison Cole: [email protected] Children’s titles in all languages Contact t: +44 (0)20 7434 5900 f: +44 (0)20 7437 1072 www.davidhigham.co.uk Writing from the Continent Michael Arlen Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, the son of an Armenian merchant, Michael Arlen (1895-1956) was an essayist, short-story writer, novelist, playwright and scriptwriter who enjoyed his greatest success in the 1920s while living and writing in England. He is most famous for his satirical romances which epitomised the brittle gaiety and underlying cynicism and disillusionment of the fashionable London society of the time, but he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers. His best-known work, The Green Hat, was published in 1924 and was subsequently adapted for both stage and screen (as A Woman of Affairs, starring Greta Garbo). The book brought him almost overnight fame on both sides of the Atlantic. -
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Grove Press Atlantic Monthly Press Black Cat The Mysterious Press Winter 2016 NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK “ The is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.”—Norman Mailer Edie American Girl Jean Stein Edited with George Plimpton Revised, with a new cover MARKETING “Extraordinary . a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and First published by Knopf in 1982, Edie was a expertly orchestrated.” —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times bestseller and has gone on to become a seminal oral history of the 1960s hen Edie: American Girl was first published, it quickly became an Draws on dozens of interviews with Edie’s international bestseller and then took a place among the classic friends, family, and acquaintances, books about the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye including Andy Warhol, Billy Name, Gerard W like a comet. She seemed to have it all: She was aristocratic and glamorous, Malanga, Bob Neuwirth, Viva, Patti Smith, Truman Capote, and many more vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine Photos printed throughout the text she was dead from a drug overdose. backlist eBook promotions In a dazzling tapestry of voices—family, friends, lovers, rivals—the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the sixties: the sex, drugs, fashion, music, and the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within—like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. -
Psychological Suspense
Psychological Suspense Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters have long been famous for psychological suspense novels depicting sociological issues such as domestic abuse, inequality, and homosexuality. These novels often depict the darker side of the protagonists psyche, and the effect of society on the human mind. There are now several writers penning works in this genre. Abrahams, Peter. Abrahams is Stephen King‟s favorite suspense writer. Joyce Carol Oates described Abrahams novels as “gratifyingly attentive to psychological detail, richly atmospheric, layered in ambiguity.” Series Echo Falls 1. Down the Rabbit Hole (2005) 2. Behind the Curtain (2006) 3. Into the Dark (2008) Novels The Fury of Rachel Monette (1980) Tongues of Fire (1982) Red Message (1986) Hard Rain (1988) Pressure Drop (1989) Revolution Number 9 (1992) Lights Out (1994) The Fan (1995) A Perfect Crime (1998) Crying Wolf (2000) Last of the Dixie Heroes (2001) The Tutor (2002) Their Wildest Dreams (2003) Oblivion (2005) End of Story (2006) Nerve Damage (2007) Delusion (2008) Reality Check (2009) Bullet Point (2010) Alvtegen, Karin. Karin Alvtegen, b. 1965, is one of Scandinavia's most widely read authors. Recognized for her artful characters and psychological thrillers, her books are best sellers worldwide. Missing (2003) Guilt (2004) Betrayal (2005) Shame (2006) Shadow (2009) 1 Anders, Donna. Anders is known for strong female protagonists, often single mothers overcoming terrifying situations. Novels Ketti (1991) Mari (1991) Sun of the Morning (1991) Paradise Moon (1992) The Flower Man (1995) Another Life (1998) Dead Silence (2000) In All the Wrong Places (2002) Night Stalker (2003) Afraid of the Dark (2004) Death Waits for You (2006) Sketching Evil (2007) Armstrong, Charlotte. -
Killer Queen
THE REVIEW 5 SUNDAY MORNING POST SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2005 Books Edited by Chris Wood [email protected] There’s nothing genteel about AUTHOR’S Minette Walters’ murders. BOOKSHELF But, as she tells Kavitha Rao, Small Island by Andrea Levy “It’s well-written, it’s funny, it there’s method in her mayhem has everything.” Red Dragon by Thomas Harris “It created Hannibal Lecter, the most iconic figure in crime since Sherlock Holmes.” Innocent Blood by P.D. James “It’s about the estranged daughter of a murderess who seeks to be reunited with her mother. One of James’ few one-offs. I always prefer one- offs.” Killer The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier “This came out in the 1960s, just when LSD was emerging, and Du Maurier very cleverly blends hallucinogenic experiences and time travel.” The Power and the Glory queen by Graham Greene “My all-time favourite novelist. I love the agony and “MY MOTHER ONCE asked me why I the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners moral angst of his characters. didn’t write a book about a ‘nice lit- of war in the Abu Ghraib prison This is about a ‘whisky priest’ tle murder’, like someone putting a camp shocked her. “The western in 1930’s Mexico, on the run cushion over an old woman’s coalition was so morally certain from a state which has head,” says crime writer Minette that it was doing the right thing,” outlawed the church.” Walters with a laugh. “That would she says. “Of course, when the be too easy for me.” events of Abu Ghraib rocked the Walters doesn’t do “nice little world, we realised there was sa- murders”. -
Gregory & Company
GREGORY & COMPANY AUTHORS’ AGENTS 3, BARB MEWS, LONDON W6 7PA TELEPHONE: 020 7610 4676 FAX: 020 7610 4686 WEBSITE: www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk EMAIL: [email protected] Rights Enquiries: Jane Gregory - UK, US, Film & TV: [email protected] Claire Morris – Translation: [email protected] Irene Baldoni – Rights Assistant [email protected] Translation Rights (Highlights) Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 For further information about our authors and their backlists, do visit our website www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk BAILEY, Sarah Sarah Bailey is a Criminology and Applied Psychology graduate and has been writing fiction since filling her notebook with adventure stories at age 8. Sarah belongs to a local writers’ group and was shortlisted for Best Opening Page at the Festival of Writing in 2014. She lives in Tunbridge Wells, is married and has a son. ALL THE LOST ONES is her first novel. She is currently working on her second book in the series, SWEET REMAINS, featuring DS Richard Vega. ALL THE LOST ONES MURDER IN THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND. Royal Tunbridge Wells: affluent, aspirational, and the scene of a second gruesome killing. A teenaged boy, murdered in near identical circumstances to that of another. A sick sense of déjà vu which leaves former Padre DS RICHARD VEGA deeply unsettled. Was something missed in the first instance, or is this a deliberate design to mask something darker still? The original killer, a child himself at the time, has been controversially released but is soon discounted. As a complex investigation turns focus on the victim’s family, established walls of secrecy are quickly reinforced and the team are met with a resounding silence.