The author wrote The Loving Spirit, published in 1931, at the former boatyard on the River Fowey in Bodinnick, southeast Cornwall. After its publication, Du Maurier said the novel was inspired by "the ...

The scent of lavender seems to waft from the pages of The Lantern, a hypnotic tale of suspicion set in the south of France. Publisher Harper is promoting British writer Deborah Lawrenson's novel as ...

It was the summer of 1929 when aspiring British writer Daphne du Maurier took to the seas with Long Island’s investment banker millionaire known as the “King of New York,” who left his Huntington home ...

"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again." That's the immortal opening sentence of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's 1938 masterpiece. How often have I been lured in to both the novel and the 1940 ...

Daphne du Maurier's riverside Cornish holiday home was a shipwright's workshop before it was bought by the Du Maurier family The Cornish holiday home where Daphne du Maurier wrote her first novel has ...

Rebecca dominates du Maurier's legacy, but she wrote plenty of other macabre novels and short stories. A collection called After Midnight gathers... You know Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca' — but she ...