Many newspapers today echo the information provided by the chain of bookshops
Waterstone's, which has compiled a list of
25 authors picked out by literary agents, editors and publishers as the writers most likely to dominate our bookshelves over the next quarter of a century. (Ben Hoyle for The Times).
Although there are no explicit Brontë mentions for obvious reasons, there are, however, several authors mentioned in this blog over the years in connection with the Brontë family.
Maggie O'Farrell,
Jane Harris,
Jasper Fforde as well as several others have had their books compared to the Brontës' or openly confessed to being Brontëites.
Reports of the news can be read in several newspapers, among them
The Times,
The Guardian,
The Scotsman (with special focus on Scottish literature), and
The Herald. The
Swindon Advertiser, of course, looks at
Jasper Fforde in particular,
Thursday Next being a native of
Swindon. And don't forget the
fifth installment of the series is coming out in July!
But if you'd like to go for the classics,
The Times of India says,
And for those who agree with Mark Twain that a 'Classic is a book that people praise but don’t read', people like 22-year-old Saumya Sharma, a post-graduate student must be mirages! In the league of those avid readers of classics, Saumya feels that, "Books by Bronté and Austen are a prototype of classic literature and therefore a must this summer." She also throws in Victorian classics by Dickens and Thomas Hardy for their "erudite experience" and Wilkie Collins inimitable The Moonstone and The Women In White for good measure. (Eram Agha)
Here's to (more than) a quarter of a century of great books then, modern or classic!
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