Dragon Fruit

Here's a shout out to USA TODAY comrade/novelist Joyce Lamb winner of a Daphne du Maurier award at last week's annual Romance Writers of America convention in New York City. The award is sponsored by Kiss of Death,

The stories in this collection of recently unearthed early work by Daphne du Maurier were mainly written between the years 1926 and 1932, though many didn't appear in print until much later. While they often do feel like the work of a young writer,

But Gothic novelist Daphne du Maurier was not always happy with the way her words were translated to the big screen. A letter she wrote in 1952 – sold by auction specialists Bonhams last night (Wednesday) in New York – shows how she guarded against her

There was the annual Daphne du Maurier Festival that week, with speakers such as Tim Rice and Ann Widdecombe. So I sat there on my own for two or three hours. Just as I was contemplating throwing myself off the balcony, people started trickling back to

Don't Look Now is director Nic Roeg's (Walkabout; The Man Who Fell to Earth) adaptation of the novella by Daphne du Maurier. It's an atmospheric psychological thriller and horror film featuring the brilliant performances of Donald Sutherland and Julie