Alan Kaufman did time in the Israel Defence Forces, giving him the experience necessary to draw on for this glimpse into a soldier's life. The title, Matches, is a nickname the officers gave the soldiers, "one-strike flames that burned up and died."

Catherine Morland (Felicity Jones) was a plain child from a family of ten children. She preferred to participate in activities like cricket and baseball rather than socialize. If she wasn´t being active then she was poring over romantic novels.

This is the third screen adaptation of Jane Austen´s third novel, Mansfield Park. The screenplay was written by Maggie Wadey and Billie Piper (Secret Diaries of a Call Girl, Dr. Who) portrays the exuberant heroine Fanny Price.

Mary Shelley is the British author behind the 1818 novel, Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus), about a scientist with insane notions of building a man from leftover human body parts. It's a novel written by a woman ahead

Marsha Mehran was born in Tehran (an Iran province), grew up in Argentina and currently divides her time between New York and Ireland. Her first release, Pomegranate Soup,

Readers and writers often wonder how a story or character is developed by an author. Not all writers write or create the same way. In a recent interview Maria Hyland took the opportunity to discuss the character development in

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If you haven´t spent much time following literary book awards they are an excellent source for interesting reading lists. Here is a listing of books beginning in 1969 to present from the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Follow along in order or

Every year the judges of the Man Booker Prize have a difficult task of looking for a unique writer with a distinct voice and original imagination that will take readers on a memorable journey. This award was known as the Booker Prize since it's inaugural in 1969 before it changed sponsors in 2002.

Even though her first short story was published when she was seventeen Maria Hyland didn´t follow the writing bug until after she went through the trouble of becoming a lawyer. Recently recognized on the Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist