Edith Pargeter: Ellis Peters (ISIS Large Print S.) - Hardcover

Lewis, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850892555 ISBN 13: 9781850892557

Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books, 1995

Synopsis

This perceptive survey of the two faces of prolific and award-winning author Edith Pargeter explores both her life and her work. Pargeter is best known as Ellis Peters, the author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. These 20 novels have been televised and adapted for radio and have played a major role in turning crime writing into a literary genre and making historical detectives popular. Also discussed are Pargeter's series of 14 Inspector Felse novels, written under her real name, and her further novels, including two outstanding historical sequences. The Brothers of Gwynedd quartet and The Heaven Tree trilogy. The Eighth Champion of Christendom, a trilogy of novels about the Second World War, is also illuminated.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Lewis was born in Northern Ireland and educated at the Universities of Alberta, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a writer and a contributor to public relations at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to her short stories broadcast on the radio and published in anthologies, she is the author of the biography Ngaio Marsh: A Life (Chatto, 1991).

Edition details

• Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850892555
• ISBN 13: 9781850892557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248