Edith Pargeter: Ellis Peters (Border Lines Series) - Hardcover

Lewis, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1854111280 ISBN 13: 9781854111289

Publisher: Seren, 1995

Synopsis

An introductory biography of the life and work of Edith Pargeter, author of sixty books, but internationally known as Ellis Peters, author of the popular Cadfael Chronicles, featured on PBS's Mystery series. Margaret Lewis investigates the circumstances which make Pargeter's area of Shropshire so vital to her work, and discusses the wide range of her writing. Although devoting a large part of the book to the Cadfael phenomenon, and to the art of writing crime fiction, Lewis demonstrates that Pargeter is also a translator, historian, and novelist of distinction. The biography includes discussion of Pargeter's historical novels, The Heaven Tree Trilogy and the Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet, her wartime trilogy, The Eighth Champion of Christendom, the Inspector Felse novels, her award-winnning Czech translations, as well as the Cadfael Chronicles, and here Lewis includes a plot summary of each Cadfael novel. Some photographs have been made available from Edith Pargeter's private collection.

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: Seren
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854111280
• ISBN 13: 9781854111289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 154