250 pages, paperback 125x195mm, Portrait ISBN-10: 0955519659 ISBN-13: 9780955519659
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Michael Arlen - Michael Arlen was born in Bulgaria in 1895 of Armenian parents. He changed his name from Dikran Konyounmdjian in 1922 and became a naturalised British subject. After being educated at Malvern College he wrote two novels which met with little attention. He achieved fame with the publication of The Green Hat in 1924.Driving around London in an enormous yellow Rolls Royce, slim, well-dressed and impeccably mannered, he was very like the characters in his novels. He lived in Cannes until the outbreak of the Second World War, and then moved to New York where he died in 1956.
Michael Arlen on the cover of TIME Magazine from Monday May 02 1927.An article entitled ‘Mayfairian’ focusing on Arlen and taken from the same edition.Kirsty Gunn - Kirsty Gunn is the author of five novels, The Boy and the Sea, Featherstone, Rain, The Keepsake and This Place You Return to Is Home, and a collection of writing and poems, 44 Things. She lives with her family in London and Scotland. Please visit British Council Contemporary Writers for more details about Kirsty Gunn.
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