The Tumbling Girl is the debut novel by UEA alumna Bridget Walsh and is published this week by Gallic Books. Bridget was an English teacher for 23 years, before enrolling on the MA in Crime Fiction at UEA in 2017. Her dissertation won the UEA Little, Brown Award. The Tumbling Girl is the first in […]
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The Tumbling Girl
An extract from Bridget Walsh’s debut novel, The Tumbling Girl, published by Gallic in May 2023. Charlie Moore wasn’t looking for any particular girl – he wasn’t that fussy, truth be told – just someone halfway pretty and willing to take his mind off his troubles for a short while. Here on the Strand […]
The Stanhope Venus
The opening chapter from Bridget Walsh’s novel, The Stanhope Venus, winner of the UEA Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction LONDON, 1876 ONE Minnie Ward wrapped the towel more securely round her hand and took a firm hold of the knife. With one deft movement, she inserted the blade into the hinge of the oyster, twisted it […]
Bridget Walsh wins UEA Little, Brown Award
Graduating Creative Writing student Bridget Walsh has won this year’s £3,000 UEA Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction for her debut novel The Stanhope Venus. Bridget (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Crime Writing this year and was also the recipient of the David Higham Associates scholarship to undertake the course. A former teacher of […]
