21 CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE. Heirs of Agatha Kristi and J. R. Tolkien
NEIL GAIMAN (BORN INNOVEMBER 1960) American Gods Anansi boys Inter. World
JONATHAN COE (BORN IN AUGUST 1961) The closed circle The rain before it falls The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim
STEPHEN FRY (BORN IN AUGUST 1957) The book of general ignorance Last chance to see The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
J. K. ROWLING (HARRY POTTER) Amazing facts • IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR BOOK IN THE WORLD • 600 MILLIONS OF COPIED SOLD ALL OVER THE WORLD • EIGHT EPISODES FILMED • HARRY POTTER’S WORLD IS BASED ON BRITISH LANDSKAPES Picture from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone
SUE TOWNSEND Number 10 Adrian Mole series Queen Camilla
CONCLUSION Contemporary issues such as global warming and international conflicts (especially the Second Persian Gulf War and its aftermath) received attention, writers were still more disposed to look back. The perceived success and promotion of genre authors from Scotland provoked controversy in 2009 when James Kelman criticised, in a speech at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the attention afforded to "upper middle-class young magicians" and "detective fiction" by the "Anglocentric" Scottish literary establishment
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