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Needless Alley

January 19, 2023 by andrew

An extract from Natalie Marlow’s debut novel, Needless Alley, published by Baskerville, John Murray Press on 19th January 2023.   Chapter One Birmingham. Sunday 4th June 1933 William’s footsteps sounded heavy on the bare linoleum. The lighting in the corridor was poor; a single bulb, covered by a pink glass shade, dangled unlit from the […]

Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow

January 14, 2023 by andrew

Needless Alley is the debut crime novel by UEA alumna Natalie Marlow and is published by Baskerville / John Murray this week. It is the first book in a series set in 1930s Birmingham. Natalie graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Writing) in 2018 and is currently undertaking a PhD at Birkbeck, University […]

The Library Suicides by Fflur Dafydd

January 14, 2023 by andrew

The Library Suicides is the new novel by UEA alumna Fflur Dafydd and is published by Hodder & Stoughton this week. Fflur graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2000 and has since written for stage, screen and radio in both English and Welsh, as well as recording and touring widely as a […]

Marie Antoinette by Deborah Davis

January 14, 2023 by andrew

Marie Antoinette is a new television series scripted by UEA alumna Deborah Davis and is currently being shown in eight episodes on BBC2. Deborah graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) in 2012, having previously worked in law and journalism. Her drama series Balance of Power was written while on the MA and initially broadcast on […]

The Things That We Lost

January 12, 2023 by andrew

An extract from The Things That We Lost, the debut novel by Jyoti Patel, published by Merky Books / Penguin Random House in January 2023 Chapter 3 July 2017 Avani stares across the River Ganga, trying her best to put what she’s seeing into words. Water. Sky. Trees. Locals. Tourists. Bells. Orange. Green. Blue. This […]

The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel

January 8, 2023 by andrew

The Things That We Lost is the debut novel by UEA alumna Jyoti Patel and is published this week by Penguin / Merky Books. Jyoti was born in Paris to British Indian parents and grew up in London. She graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2014 and from […]

Jyoti Patel and Stephen Buoro selected for The Observer’s 10 Best New Novelists

January 8, 2023 by andrew

Two graduates of the UEA MA in Creative Writing have been named among the Observer’s annual selection of the 10 Best New Novelists. Stephen Buoro is nominated for his debut The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa and Jyoti Patel for her first novel The Things That We Lost. Stephen (pictured) was born in Nigeria in […]

Nine Things We Learned from Kazuo Ishiguro

January 5, 2023 by andrew

Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Laureate and Booker-winning author of The Remains of the Day, graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing MA in 1980. In 2013 he returned to UEA to deliver a public lecture and the following morning gave a masterclass to current MA students on the technicalities of writing. Here, in a feature taken from the […]

A Writer’s Diary #7

January 4, 2023 by andrew

An entry from A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt, published by Galley Beggar Press on 1 January 2023   4 January Mittwoch Other things are happening or being done which I’m not always mentioning. I travel around the city in which I live on public transport, usually the top deck of a bus or the […]

A Writer’s Diary #6

January 3, 2023 by andrew

An entry from A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt, published by Galley Beggar Press on 1 January 2023   3 January Dienstag Behind me I’m starting to wonder whether art – music especially – isn’t divided up, completely down the middle, into stuff for the well and stuff for the ill. What I mean is, […]

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