Category Archives: First novels

The Man Booker Shortlist

Posted on September 10, 2008 by angela

So here they are: Aravind Adiga The White TigerSebastian Barry The Secret ScriptureAmitav Ghosh Sea of PoppiesLinda Grant The Clothes on Their BacksPhilip Hensher The Northern ClemencySteve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole Two first novels have made the shortlist, … Continue reading →

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Old work, new work

Posted on March 19, 2008 by angela

While staring through the window and dreaming about my new novel (and doing some planning) I find images from my first novel stealing into my mind. I ask myself if that’s because I’m afraid of stepping into the new or … Continue reading →

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The Man Booker shortlist, first novels

Posted on September 6, 2007 by angela

So, none of the first novels longlisted made it to the Man Booker shortlist but perhaps, because this list has been so wonderfully readable (no I haven’t read them all, hardly any in fact, yet, but I’ve been reading dovegreyreader’s … Continue reading →

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First novels and short stories

Posted on August 9, 2007 by angela

The thing about writing your first novel is that as well as doing it you’re finding out how to do it. So, you would have thought that I’d have discovered at least the fundamentals of the how by now. But … Continue reading →

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