I love fantasy novels, Philip Larkin is my favorite author, he has the Queen's gold medal for poetry
I haven't read many fantasy novels, other than the Lord of the Rings books.
HE wrote "The North Ship" is was quite popular
Is that also a fantasy novel, it doesn't sound as whimsical.
What other books do you love besides Lord of the Rings ? BY the way a lot of people did not expected "The North Ship to be popular.
I like the C.S. Lewis stories as well. I will have to check out The North Ship, I like to get lost in stories sometimes.
library in Wellington, Shropshire and writing his second novel "A Girl in Winter".
The volume was published again, in 1966, by Faber and Faber Limited. In the 1945 version there are 31 items, numbered with Roman numerals. The last of these, "The North Ship" is a set of five poems tracking a ship's northward progress. Of the 30 single poems, only seven have titles. In the 1966 reissue an extra poem, "Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair"
Nicholas Stuart Gray
Nicholas Stuart Gray (23 October 1922, Scotland – 17 March 1981) was a British actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in England. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories. Neil Gaiman has written that Gray "is one of those authors I loved as a boy who holds up even better on rereading as an adult". Many other modern fantasy authors, such