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The Red Children by Maggie Gee Review
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The Red Children Maggie Gee Review

November 30, 2023 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on The Red Children Maggie Gee Review
Maggie Gee is renowned for her imaginative, thought-provoking novels which embrace a wide range of themes and genres, underpinned by social commentary, satire and shrewd humour. The Red Children is a wonderfully weird, surreal and […]
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Maggie Gee Novelist & Creative Writing Coach Interview

November 30, 2023 Ben F Comments Off on Maggie Gee Novelist & Creative Writing Coach Interview
A leading English novelist, professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, and one of the 20 writers on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983, Maggie Gee describes her childhood, early […]
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Inaugural Global Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize Cassava Press

November 30, 2023 Ben F Comments Off on Inaugural Global Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize Cassava Press
Good to see Cassava Press and their latest initiative in the news: The Inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize celebrates the “best in unpublished non-fiction manuscripts” and is open to unpublished Black women based […]
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Sad Tiger Neige Sinno Review

November 4, 2023 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Sad Tiger Neige Sinno Review
Sad Tiger is a vivid account of incest and its consequences, beautifully written in purist prose. But this book is more than a confessional memoir in which the author lifts the lid on shocking facts […]

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