This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary[...]
This beginner's guide to novel-writing teams a vast knowledge of literary technique with an understanding of the pleasures and pitfalls of being a writer. Drawing on her twenty years experience of teaching Creative Writing, author Carolyn Lewis navigates the various stages of novel writing, from cre[...]
In 1815, after the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte and a few loyal followers are exiled to St. Helena.On this remote, volcanic island, Am lie Perrault, the daughter of Napoleon's head chef, struggles with her low station in life and a fascination with the fallen French emperor. When her beaut[...]