The Butchers by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan has won this year’s Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, which is worth £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. The novel was published by Atlantic Books last year. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and studied at Cambridge and […]
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Ruth Gilligan shortlisted for RSL/Ondaatje Prize
The Butchers by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan has been shortlisted for this year’s Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, which is worth £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place. The novel was published by Atlantic Books last year. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and […]
The Butchers
The opening to The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan, published by Atlantic Books on 26th March 2020. Prologue New York, January 2018 Even now, twenty-two years since he took the photograph, he still cannot quite believe the lack of blood. The cold store isn’t a big room, maybe twenty by twenty at a push, the wall […]
The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan
The Butchers is the new novel by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan and is published by Atlantic Books this week. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and studied at Cambridge and Yale before coming to UEA. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011, and completed a PhD in English at Exeter […]
