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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Pauline Melville'... We found 3 matches.
Pauline Melville
The Migration of Ghosts In this collection of short stories, the author dabbles in and out of the occult. The reader meets Mrs Da Silva a 65-year-old matriarch of Carnival's Rebel War Band who wins the heart of a postman, and a widow who commemorates the death of her husband by winning a taverna's dance competition.
1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book)1990 Guardian Fiction Prize1991 PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award1997 Whitbread First Novel Award1998 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist) The Ventriloquist's Tale
Bloomsbury 1999 £6.99 ISBN 0-7475-4279-1
 Author photo: © Sarah Fitzgerald
Pauline Melville
Shape-Shifter Pauline Melville's first collection of short stories explores issues of identity in her characters living in the post-colonial Caribbean and in London. Her characters are dealing with new lives in new environments and attempting to reconcile their past.
1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book)1990 Guardian Fiction Prize1991 PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award1997 Whitbread First Novel Award1998 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist) The Ventriloquist's Taleuardian Fiction Prize, Macmillan Silver Pen Award
Bloomsbury 1994 £6.99 ISBN 0-7475-49947-X
Author photo: © Sarah Fitzgerald
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth72
Pauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's Tale Pauline Melville conjures pictures of the savannah, forest and city life in South America whre love is often triumphed by disaster. This novel embraces nearly a century, when laughter is never far from tragedy. It is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying culture.
1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book); 1990 Guardian Fiction Prize; 1991 PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award; 1997 Whitbread First Novel Award; 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist)
Bloomsbury 1998 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-7475-3514-0
Author photo: © Sarah Fitzgerald
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