The Confessions of Becky Sharp (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781497381186)

Double-click to start typing David has been published in such diverse places as The Times Literary Supplement, Essays in Criticism, The Brontë Society Transactions, The Thoreau Journal Quarterly, The Journal of Narrative Technique, Didaskolas, The Use of English, Children's Literature in Education, Peace and Freedom, Krax, Quartos, newbooks and The Freethinker. In 1977 he edited Eight American Stories for Longman. His first novel, Boy Among Men appeared in 1988, followed by Paris Bound, a road novel of a journey from Morocco to England taken by a professor and his female Moslem student. Punching Judy follows the progress of a female juvenile delinquent (as they were called in the 1950s) from a detention centre through her career as a pugilist, taking on all comers, men and women, both in the ring and out. In complete contrast The Confessions of Becky Sharp ( 2011)is told from the viewpoint of Becky, a charming and cunning adventuress who climbs the social ladder into aristocratic circles. It is a sequel, a prequel and an alternative version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. David James is now a full time writer of fiction, his latest works being Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors (2012) and The Scholar's Tale (2014). He has a grown-up family and lives in the United Kingdom in Sutton, Surrey with his second wife and two children, Ligaya, a Goldsmiths College, University of London graduate, now working for her bar exams and John graduating in May this year at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Dave has conducted several self-publishing workshops at the Winchester Writers Conference. S-P is the best way to get published NOW. You set the agenda, the layout, the fonts, the appearance, the date of publication, the price. You then have to promote and sell it. It takes energy, nerve and cash, but you are master of your own ship. At the Rochester Dickens Bicentennial he spoke on Dickens and read from his novel, Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors (2012) In July 2011 David was again a Speaker at the Winchester Writers Conference, this time delivering a talk on sequels and fictional biography. He has given occasional talks on writing and publishing to writers circles and is currently a member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (Alli).