YoungWillz 21,050 Posted December 24, 2017 Vanessa Lafaye has cancer: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/the-sunday-times-magazine/vanessa-lafaye-ive-got-cancer-this-might-be-my-last-christmas-dwnkbcs7v Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,329 Posted December 24, 2017 15 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Vanessa Lafaye has cancer: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/the-sunday-times-magazine/vanessa-lafaye-ive-got-cancer-this-might-be-my-last-christmas-dwnkbcs7v Another name to add to my prospective list!Just brilliant. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted December 24, 2017 I think I wrote of that before. Or am I confusing her with someone else... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted December 24, 2017 No, looks like she's just upgraded from the Mail to the Times. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5017843/Vanessa-happiest-dying-woman-Britain.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted December 25, 2017 22 hours ago, Sean said: Another name to add to my prospective list!Just brilliant. Please don't tell us you are going to offer up Shameless 3.0. Even gcr has given up the ghost on that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dead Cow 620 Posted December 29, 2017 On 7/27/2016 at 01:28, Death Impends said: Mystery author Bill Crider has a "very aggressive form of carcinoma". Per his Wiki, two of his novels were co-written with Today Show weatherman Willard Scott, of all people. One for the dead pools with very lax obit standards. Entered hospice care earlier this month. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted December 29, 2017 Detective novelist and DDP Pick Sue Grafton has died: http://www.wdrb.com/story/37160155/louisville-mystery-writer-sue-grafton-has-died-family-friend-says Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted December 29, 2017 2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Detective novelist and DDP Pick Sue Grafton has died: http://www.wdrb.com/story/37160155/louisville-mystery-writer-sue-grafton-has-died-family-friend-says Quote A graduate of Atherton High School and the University of Louisville, Grafton worked as a screenwriter before writing the first of her popular Kinsey Millhone novels, “A is for Alibi,” in 1982. She published her most recent book in the series, “Y is for Yesterday,” earlier this year. Bit of a kicker for those excitedly waiting for Z is for Zebra. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted December 29, 2017 2 minutes ago, msc said: Bit of a kicker for those excitedly waiting for Z is for Zebra. Was previously announced as Z Is For Zero.....still not reading it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted December 29, 2017 1 minute ago, YoungWillz said: Was previously announced as Z Is For Zero.....still not reading it... Ah, I've probably just spoiled the twist! "Read the A-Z the other day. Turns out, the zebra did it." A 90s comic but I forget which one. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted December 29, 2017 2 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Was previously announced as Z Is For Zero.....still not reading it... You won't be getting the chance to read it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted December 30, 2017 True Crime writer Helen Garner is now ready to die happily. However there's no hidden talk about cancer à la Thomas Keneally in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/helen-garner-i-used-to-feel-spiteful-because-i-never-won-prizes-now-i-can-die-happy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrunoBrimley 86 Posted January 1, 2018 Now that Sue Grafton has left for the mortuary one last time, maybe that wannabe writer Lawrence Block can follow suit. He is nearly 2 years older than Grafton was and his health just hasn't been the best since his near fatal fall some months back in which he cracked his hip, followed by less than successful surgery. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,417 Posted January 2, 2018 Francis Wyndham, British author and editor, has died aged 93. He received profiles from The Guardian and The Independent. Edit: The Times, The Telegraph obituaries. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 3, 2018 On 6/5/2017 at 12:49, ObakeFilter said: Helen Dunmore, who revealed having cancer not so long ago, died at 64. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid=712 Helen Dunmore has won the Costa Book Award for poetry posthumously, six months after dying of cancer. The late poet and novelist was awarded the major literary prize for her tenth and final collection Inside The Wave. It includes the poem Hold Out Your Arms, which was written shortly before she died in June at the age of 64. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 4, 2018 Wrong thread per se, but I can live with this decision. The owner of New York’s famed Strand Bookstore has died, according to an obituary posted online. Fred Bass died Wednesday morning at the age of 89, the obituary in Publishers Weekly says. Bass was a New York native whose father started the iconic bookstore in 1927. The shop went on to become the most famous bookstore in modern day New York -- instantly recognizable to the legions of city dwellers who have filled its narrow corridors stacked with “18 miles of books.” SC Note: Found it amusing 'he died according to an obituary...' ya think? I know, there's always the Bob Hope mantra....but this was rather poorly worded and amusing (to me) nonetheless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,417 Posted January 11, 2018 Tricia Walker, a British author who wrote Benedict's Brother, has died aged 53. She is the daughter of Peter Walker, the author of the Constable series which were the inspiration for the TV series Heartbeat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted January 18, 2018 On 10/02/2017 at 14:01, Bibliogryphon said: Raymond Briggs receives Lifetime Achievment award from the Books Trust. Looks terrible unlike my DDP pick, the much older Shirley Hughes who seems positively beaming I hadn't realised that Raymond Briggs was still alive but anyway to him 84 today. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted January 18, 2018 Oooh, he's in my 30/30 team which I haven't got round to submitting yet. Must get on that. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted January 18, 2018 Peter Mayle, author of books on Provence, dead aged 78. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/peter-mayle-author-year-provence-dead-78-52444573 and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5286081/Peter-Mayle-author-A-Year-Provence-dead-78.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bentrovato 1,088 Posted January 18, 2018 9 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: I hadn't realised that Raymond Briggs was still alive but anyway to him 84 today. He did a great Desert Island Discs where he, as the great children's book Snowman author, tried to explain politely that he did not like bloody children, had never wanted any and barely put up with those in his family and only did so in the knowledge he did not have to take them home. Very funny. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bentrovato 1,088 Posted January 18, 2018 26 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Peter Mayle, author of books on Provence, dead aged 78. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/peter-mayle-author-year-provence-dead-78-52444573 and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5286081/Peter-Mayle-author-A-Year-Provence-dead-78.html Shite books and an even worse TV adaptation. Willl never go to Provence just in case I bump into some of his fatuous and vacuous friends. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted January 23, 2018 Ursula K. Le Guin dead aged 88. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted January 23, 2018 Just now, Phantom of the Midway said: Ursula K. Le Guin dead aged 88. Ooh, ...huge... and sad. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youwanticewiththat 611 Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Phantom of the Midway said: Ursula K. Le Guin dead aged 88. Very sad to read that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
