Bestsellers
Bestsellers

Author: C. Bloom

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-09-29

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0230583873

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This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of all bestselling books, authors and genres since the start of the last century, giving an unique insight into a hundred years of publishing and reading and taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900

Author: C. Bloom

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-07-09

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0230287492

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This guide and reference work of all of the bestselling books, authors and genres since the beginning of the 20th century, provides an insight into over 100 years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.

The Woman Detective
The Woman Detective

Author: Kathleen Gregory Klein

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780252064630

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Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.

The Image
The Image

Author: Daniel J. Boorstin

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1992-09-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0679741801

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First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.

Zane Grey
Zane Grey

Author: Thomas H. Pauly

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2007-07-27

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0252074920

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Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and a central player in the early popularity of the Western. Thomas H. Pauly's work is the first full-length biography of Grey to appear in over thirty years. Using a hitherto unknown trove of letters and journals, including never-before-seen photographs of his adventures--both natural and amorous--Zane Grey has greatly enlarged and radically altered the current understanding of the superstar author, whose fifty-seven novels and one hundred and thirty movies heavily influenced the world's perception of the Old West.

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900

Author: Clive Bloom

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-03

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 3030791548

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This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in publishing, bookselling, library borrowing and literacy. There are sections on writing for children, on the importance of audiobooks and book clubs, self- published bestsellers as well as many new entries to the present day including bestselling authors such as David Walliams, Peter James, George R R Martin and far less well known authors whose books s sell in their thousands. This is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors, genres, publishing and bookselling since 1900, providing a unique insight into more than a century of entertainment, and opening a window into the reading habits and social life of the British from the death of Queen Victoria to the Coronavirus Pandemic.