The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease: 3 - Brossura

AS Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer's Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999. Christopher Priest is an English novelist and science fiction writer, and one of the UK s most prolific sci-fi short fiction writers. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island, Inverted World, The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Prestige and The Separation. His novel The Prestige was adapted into a popular and critically-acclaimed film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale and Michael Caine. Frank Cottrell Boyce's film credits include 24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story and the forthcoming remake of Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang. His debut novel Millions won the 2004 Carnegie Medal and was shortlisted for The Guardian Children s Fiction Award. His second novel, Framed, was adapted into a film by the BBC. His third, The Unforgotten Coat, was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Children s Book Award and won the 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He was Danny Boyle s script writer on the 2012 London Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Ramsey Campbell is described by the Oxford Companion to English Literature as Britain's most respected living horror writer , and in 1991 was voted the Horror Writer's Horror Writer in the Observer Magazine. His many award-winning novels include The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, The Overnight, and The Grin of the Dark. He has also published thirteen collections of short stories to date, most recently Told by the Dead (2003).