David Hughes (novelist)

David Hughes ( born July 27, 1930 in Alton, Hampshire, † 11 April, 2005 ) was an English novelist and screenwriter.

Life

In Alton, Hampshire, born, Hughes went to the Eggar 's Grammar School, Alton, and later on the King's College School in Wimbledon. His father, Fielden Hughes, was rector of another Wimbledon School and also wrote a series of novels.

David Hughes married the Swedish actress Mai Zetterling in 1958 and me in her various films, all of which had a slightly frivolous tone, and books together.

Both were divorced in 1976 to marry four years later.

His later books included a biographical tribute to his friend Gerald Durrell, entitled Himself and Other Animals, which was published in 1977.

Hughes won the 1985 the WH Smith Literary Award for the novel The Pork Butcher and the 1994 German Youth Literature Prize for his picture book pimp.

Works

• A Feeling In The Air / U.S. Title One Off Beat (1957 )
• Sealed With A Loving Kiss " (1959 )
• The Horse Hair sofa (1961 )
• The Major (1964 )
• The Man Who Invented Tomorrow ( 1968), HG Wells
• Memories of Dying (1976 )
• A Genoese Fancy (1979 )
• The Imperial German Dinner Service ( 1983)
• The Pork Butcher (1984 ) - filmed as a souvenir (1989 )
• But for Bunter / U.S. title The Joke of the Century (1986 )
• The Little Book (1996 )

( with Mai Zetterling ):

• The War Game (1983 )
• Loving Couples (1964 )
• Night Games (1966 )
• Doctor Glass (1967 )
• The Girls (1968 )

• A Study of J. B. Priestley (1958 )
• The Road to Stockholm ( 1964), a travelogue
• The Seven Ages of Britain (1967 )
• The Rosewater Revolution ( 1971), a socio- cultural analysis
• Himself and Other Animals (1997)
• The Lent Jewels ( 2002), a biography of AC Tait, an Archbishop of Canterbury of the 19th century
• The Hack 's Tale (2004), a study of the origins of journalism