The Book of Forgotten Authors - Christopher Fowler

Category: Education, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Agatha Christie Book About Books Culture Essays Language Library Literary Writing

Written by Christopher Fowler
Read by Christopher Fowler
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 8h 39m

“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 shelves.

We are fondly introduced to each potential rediscovery from lost Victorian voices to the 20th century writers who could well become the next John Williams, Hans Fallada, or Lionel Davidson.

Whether male or female, 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.

These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favorites, 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 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.