Francesca Simon
American-born British children's author; wrote the Horrid Henry series and the novel The Monstrous Child, which she also wrote as an opera libretto for the Royal Opera House.
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Recommends The Once and Future King
You know, there are some books that you read last month and you can barely remember what they were about, but I remember very specifically reading The Once and Future King.
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Recommends Grendel
Grendel was published in 1971, and I was absolutely astonished by the idea that you could take a poem like Beowulf and tell it from a different point of view.
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Recommends The Song of Achilles
It’s called The Song of Achilles.
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Recommends House of Names
House of Names is a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra, Iphigenia and Agamemnon.
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Recommends Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers as well, because it introduces you to a lot of his most famous characters.
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Recommends Miss Mackenzie
In one of the books, Miss Mackenzie, Miss Mackenzie is trying to decide between three suitors and one suitor, sadly, is wearing bright yellow kid gloves.
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Recommends The Eustace Diamonds
The Eustace Diamonds is part of the Palliser sequence, but I read the Pallisers out of sequence and it was not a problem.
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Recommends The Way We Live Now
The Way We Live Now is about a swindler or confidence trickster, Augustus Melmotte, who bears a strong resemblance to Robert Maxwell, if you remember him.
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Recommends The American Senator
I was thinking about this today with the first book I chose, The American Senator.
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