Alice thompson, onetime keyboard player for eighties band the woodentops, is now an established novelist, who has won praise from ian rankin and stephen king. We process payfast payments, credit card payments visa and mastercard, instant electronic fund transfers bank transfers from all south africas major banks, which get instantly verified. Join facebook to connect with alice thompson and others you may know. The book follows a woman named violet, an obsessed book reader and how she falls in love and marries archie, an obsessed book collector. The book collector, by alice thompson there is a distinctive ambience to an alice thompson novel.
She was the former keyboard player with postpunk eighties band, the woodentops and joint winner with graham swift of the james tait black memorial prize for fiction for her first novel, justine. Alice thompsons new novel is a gothic story of book collecting, mutilation and madness. Violet is obsessed with the books of fairy tales her husband acquires, but her growing delusions see her confined in an asylum. The book collector, by alice thompson yorkshire post. From justine, her debut which won the james tait black memorial prize. The horror master would no doubt approve of this slim edwardianera gothic, too, recalling as it does both rebecca and the silence of the lambs. Alice thompson was born and brought up in edinburgh. Watch the cspan collection of videos, access clips including recent appearances by alice thompson. Let me know if youve read these books, and what you thoughts were if you did. As she recovers and is released a terrifying series of events is unleashed. Praise for the book collector with a nod to angela carter, thompson takes the myth of bluebeard, the murdering husband who keeps a tally of his dead wives, sets it down in that edwardian summer just before the guns of the first world war go off. The secret of lies, barbara forte abate, dog ear publishing the life. What happens after happily ever after is a question addressed in alice thompsons seventh novel, and a book of hans christian andersens. Studies presented and discussed at the third international african seminar in salisbury, december 1960.
There is a distinctive ambience to an alice thompson novel. From justine, her debut which won the james tait black memorial prize, through. In the 1980s she played keyboard with rock band the woodentops. Alice thompsons new novel is a gothic story of book collecting. Thompson was educated at st georges school, edinburgh then read english at oxford and wrote her ph.
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