Mainstream fiction, from all-time classics to contemporary novels
Mar 23rd, 2019, 4:39 pm
2 Novels by Ronald McGowan
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Overview: I was born in 1947 when most of the map of the world was still coloured red and my home town, Sunderland, still built more ships than anywhere else in the world.
This was not to last. The Empire crumbled away from lack of interest, and so did the British shipbuilding industry, and by the end of the 1960s Sunderland had the highest unemployment rate in England.
If you want to know what it felt like to live in that time, you might care to try my semi-autobiographical 'What I did in my Holidays'.
I had the luck, skill and application - and encouragement from my family - to pass the exams for the local grammar school (note for our US friends - Grammar School = High School) which was the only state-run school ever to be invited to join the Headmasters' Conference, the association of the most elite private schools in the country.
I came out of there with a scholarship to Cambridge University, which I had to turn down for family reasons which I am not going to go into here. (I may one day steel myself to write about them in a sequel to 'Holidays'). Instead, I went to Durham, and from there wasted years attempting to go further in Academia at Yale and Nottingham, before ending up, like Evelyn Waugh's Paul Pennyfeather, teaching.
After 12 months' hard labour at the chalkface I succumbed to the lures of Mammon and went into Government Service, which in those days paid very well and was highly respected. How times have changed.
It took me thirty years to raise the courage -and the money- to get out into the real world, and I have never regretted leaving early (in fact I deliberately left a few weeks earlier than originally planned to avoid getting my name on some Honours List for long service and show the powers that be what I really thought of them).
Since then I have studied at several universities on both sides of the pond, and concentrated more on writing.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Pride Unprejudiced
This book retells the story of Jane Austen's most popular book from the point of view of one of her least popular characters, Mr. Collins, the comic clergyman from Pride and Prejudice.
It is a light-hearted exploration of what might have happened behind the scenes of this famous novel.

Miss Darcy's Diversions
Georgiana Darcy. Mr Darcy's sister, has a backstory as remarkable as any of Jane Austen's heroines, and a character to compare with them, too.
Read all about her early life, her encounter with the devious Mr Wickham, and more, in this latest offering from the creator of 'Pride Unprejudiced."

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