Novelists No One Reads Anymore

I used to see these books a lot at the Swap meet book trailers

the pulp versions are all public domain now so are available in the normal places. the killmaster stuff seems to go for over $20 a pop on Amazon, often much more (based on a random sample of half a dozen)

oddly Corelli got a passing mention on bbc4 last night, a repeat of the Victorian Sensations thing, Philippa Perry talking about seances etc

Does anyone read Edward Upward anymore?

I'm not sure anyone ever really read Upward apart from The Railway Accident for the Isherwood connection

Just looked at his Wiki page - he was older than Evelyn Waugh, yet only died in 2009!!

Fair point.
That's the only one I've read, and that's why I read it... Such a strange book....
2009?! did not know that...

I read The Railway Accident a long time ago, but remember being quite fascinated by it. There's a lot about the Mortmere stories in Isherwood's autobiography, the name of which escapes me...

Wiki says Upward wrote his final short story shortly before his 100th birthday... there's hope for us all!

I love Edward Upward, particularly the Spiral Ascent trilogy which is like a mini Dance to the Music of Time but with fretful middle class communists instead of the poshos. (Love ADttMoT also, fwiw).

The most recent of his books I read was The Scenic Railway from the late 90s(?)- I enjoyed that too, though I recall noticing the emergence of gerontophilia as something covered in his later stories!