Caesar by Allan Massie Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99 The third of Allan Massie’s Roman novels tells the story of ..

... Texas. The author’s skill turns a fairly humdrum story into a substantial work, a promising start to a planned trilogy. American Ghosts and Old World Wonders by Angela Carter Chatto, £13.99 This new collection of short stories reminds us what a talent was ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1993
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

Ghosts

... Ghosts. Many well-known American authors hav© contributed to “Ghosts, American Ghost Stories” (Jarrolds, 7s. 6d.), includinc Theodore Dreiser and Mark Twain, two of the greatest writers from the United States. Tho result of the collection of these stories ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1929
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FICTION, SHORT STORIES

... Beardsell, Peter l.(Ed.LSee Cortazar julio. Seven Stories. Bennett, Susan (Tr.). Heym,Georg. Thief,The. Carter, Angela. American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. 20cm.160. n.e, pbk £5.99 leag:(i)l) 0 09 913371 7 Cooper, Wrong. 20cm. 140. pbk £8.99 Serpent’s ...

Published: Friday 18 March 1994
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

Alan Lightman

... fallen. Powerful stuff. It isone of the featured titles in the Guardtan Fiction Festival (see Promotions). Angela Carter American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (Vintage, £5:99, 17th,009913371 7) Major push in the 'hopc of popularising the late author’s image ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1993
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Situations Vacant

... Brinkley, Dannion: Saved By the Light: Piatkus. Carluccio, Antonlo: A Passion for Pasta: BBC Books. Carter, Angela: American Ghosts and Old World Wonders: Arrow. Claridge, Marten: Slow Bum: Headline. Clarke, Mary: Once Upon a Time: Sidgwick & Jackson ...

Published: Friday 13 May 1994
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: 56 | Tags: none

FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION

... Tower. 26cm.1 £16.99 Legend (Arrow lts.& (&93)“221 . 0 7472 0748 8 0 7472 7903 9 FICTION, SHORT STORIES Carter, Angela. American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. 23cm.146. £13.99 Chatto (4.93) 0 7011 4003 8 Carter, M.Melonie. See Nathan,Guy & Carter,M.Melonie ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1993
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

Halla Beloff Restless spirits

... representations of tigers in literature, in myth, in art. It is not a concrete ‘tiger, ‘but an growing interest in the American ghosts of Puritanism, of Hollywood, of slavery, of Indian, Hmmemd European culture, the of her second half, Old World Wonders ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1993
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Property Built in style of a country cottage

... Aeroplanes no longer run over the estate, as they did when it was an American airfield in World War One, but if some of those American ghosts could return to see the estate as it is today they would love the typically English properties being offered. One of the ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1989
Newspaper: Littlehampton Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 478 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

HIGHLIGHTS

... slums of East Jarrow, Northumberland. Through her meeting with a seven year old girl, the novelist meets the of prominent American ghosts of her early Jazz personalities childhood which led to a captured live in New terrifying nervous York's leading jazz clubs ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1984
Newspaper: Sligo Champion
County: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 392 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

fi‘fl.lfl:flm&mm«:wn Books. 3

... Carper, Jean: The Food Pharmacy: Simon & Carper, Jean: The Food Pharmacy Cookbook: Simon & Schuster. Carter, Angela: American Ghosts and Old World Wonders: Chatto. Costello, Peter: James Joyce: Kyle Cathie. Cotterell, Arthur: East Asia: John Murray. Dwork ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1993
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 76 | Tags: none

)N TH

... appealing figure than she is in Charlotte Bronté's novel. Carter's third book will be a collection of short stories entitled American Ghosts. Jonathan Burnham at Chatto has also bought the authorised biography of Edmund White, an account of his novels and his ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1991
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Lost talent who made demons her own

... tion, from dominant narrative to portraiture in Black Venus, a pivotal book of sorts, through the posthumously published American Ghosts & Old World Wonders — eschewing fantasy worlds, while fastening on reality, plucking the inscape of that reality from ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 1995
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 611 | Page: 42 | Tags: none