Unfortunately, The Independent has not made it easy to go through the archives of this series, so I have included links to some of the first articles below. But on reflection, that probably says more about my age than the awareness of today’s readers. Looking through his articles, I’m surprised, as a veteran browser of shelves of used books, to find names like Mazo de la Roche, Mary Renault, Georgette Heyer, and John Dickson Carr. With stock in chain stores governed by computers, the only way of finding certain books is to head for independents or to search online.” Starting in August 2008, the Independent began publishing a series of short pieces by Christopher Fowler, thriller writer and dramatist, devoted to the subject of “forgotten authors.” As Fowler himself admitted, “Nobody wants to be thought of as vanished, but shelf-life is fleeting. It is for book lovers, and is written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and entertaining guide.“Invisible Ink,” a series by Christopher Fowler, published in The Independent This is a book about books and their authors. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites: including the now-vanished novels Walt Disney brought to the screen, the contemporary rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie who did not stand the test of time, and the women who introduced us to psychological suspense many decades before it conquered the world. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye.
Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten.
So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves.
SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE WHO LOVES BOOKS' EVENING STANDARDĪbsence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. 'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2017 'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK
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