![]() ![]() It always exciting news when you haven’t discovered everything there is by an author.” It was fantastic to see how eager people were to read her other works. ![]() She said: "We had such a great success bringing Stella’s lesser known novels out in 2011. ![]() The two complete novels by the Cold Comfort Farm author are An Alpha – a novel about a young woman writer moving to Britain from the Far East - and The Yellow Houses, described as something of a ghost story.ĭavis said: “Because Stella Gibbons was so deeply unfashionable during the later stages of her life and for some time afterwards, these two novels have sat with the family thinking they were unwanted.” She added that “is not the case”, highlighting the successful relaunch of 14 of Gibbons’ novels – excluding Cold Comfort Farm – by Vintage, which acquired the works in 2010.įrances Macmillan, senior editor at Vintage Classics, described the development as “incredibly exciting news". ![]() Anna Davis of Curtis Brown, agent for the Stella Gibbons estate, had no idea of the existence of two unpublished novels by the author ahead of the revelation in the Camden New Journal earlier this week.īut Davis – who expects to receive the texts from Gibbons' grandson Ben Richardson next week – told The Bookseller she hoped they would prove to be "hidden gems". ![]()
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