War novel prefaced the (American) first edition of 1941, Powys comments "the beginning of the fifteenth century […] saw the beginning of one of the most momentous and startling epochs of "transition" that the world has known". This was written in May 1940, and "[t]here can be no doubt" that readers of the novel would have "registered the connection between the actions of the book and the events of their own world". "Fair Stood the Wind for France" is a 1944 novel by H. E. Bates, which is concerned with a pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when
When the Lion Feeds enough ivory to pay for a farm, as he and Katrina had talked about doing. Before publishing "The Lion Feeds", Smith was working as an accountant and had already written a novel, "The Gods First Make Mad", for which he had been unable to find a publisher. After his first marriage failed, he tried again with a different story: I wrote about my own father and my darling mother. I wove into the story chunks of early African history. I wrote about black people and white. I wrote about hunting and gold mining and carousing and women. I wrote about