Who's your favourite writer no-one else has ever heard of?

[glasgowcyclist]

Se parli dei libri Montalbano, non c'è bisogna, ne ho già quasi tutti io! Hai letto 'Voi non sapete'?

GC

P.S. Scusami se non scrivo bene..

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Se parli dei libri Montalbano, non c'è bisogna, ne ho già quasi tutti io! Hai letto 'Voi non sapete'?

GC

P.S. Scusami se non scrivo bene..

Scrivi benissimo!
No, ancora non l'ho letto, lo leggero' prossimamente, grazie!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Scrivi benissimo!

Grazie, è molto gentile da parte tua.

No, ancora non l'ho letto..

Allora, te lo posso prestare (a patto che me lo ridai!)


GC

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Blimey, I thought I understood Glaswegian!

 

[hoopdriver]

Eric Ambler seems kind of forgotten these days, as does Antoine de St Exupery and his Wind, Sand and Stars. I am very fond of John Dos Passos' USA trilogy, another author you can find on Amazon (although not Kindle) but you never see on bookshop shelves. I guess they couldn't be called writers nobody's ever heard of, they're no. They are more sort of hiddn in plain sight.

 

[Sandra6]

There are probably loads, but I tend not to remember author's names if I just read a one-off book.
I love Noah Gordon's books and nobody has ever heard of him when I mention them, but then some of my friends struggle to read all of hello magazine.

 

[palinurus]

Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer. I have a particular edition of the collected short stories (multiple translators, revised and- mostly- translated by Walter Morison) that I like best.

 

[Archie_tect]

Just read 'The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of a window' - by Jonas Jonasson...

 

[NotthatJasonKenny]

John Kennedy Toole

'A Confederacy of Dunces' is a classic book but so few people have ever heard of it or the author!

Brilliant book, I heard about it through a friendship with another New Orleans writer, Poppy Z Brite but my favourite rare author has to be Octavia E Butler, now sadly passed but her books are awesome.

 

[GordonB]

Pierre Boulle, who no-one seems to have heard of but he wrote Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï and La planète des singes, otherwise known as Bridge on the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes. He wrote several other novels, most of which have been translated from the original French, the only other one I've managed to find a copy of is The Ears of the Jungle, brilliant Vietnam war story, deserves to be filmed.

Gordon