Reformed journalist. Author of 7 novels, including What Doesn't Kill Us, What We Did in the Dark, The Daughter of Lady Macbeth, A Petrol Scented Spring & Trust.
Perth Scotland
Joined July 2013
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A first for #AlloaWomenFestival something for the evening
@AjayClose 'reformed journalist and author of 7 books' will be discussing her Award winning book
"What doesn't kill us"
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Big congrats to @AjayClose and @SarabandBooks 🥂 I read this last year and it's superb - a well-deserved @SaltireBook awards winner!
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Announcing the #SaltireBookAwards Fiction Shortlist 2024, featuring five titles. Learn more about them and what the judges said on our website at saltiresociety.org.uk 🔗
Congratulations to authors on the Fiction shortlist:
#LiteraryAwards #booktok #TheSaltireSociety
ALT Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close Clear by Carys Davies Lost People by Margaret Elphinstone Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam
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We're thrilled to see @AjayClose on the @SaltireBook Awards Fiction Longlist for What Doesn't Kill Us 🎉
Congratulations to everyone on the longlist!
Discover the #SaltireBookAwards Fiction Longlist 2024. There are ten titles on the list, and you can learn more about these and all this year's longlists at bit.ly/SBAll24🔗Congratulations to authors on the Fiction longlist:
#LiteraryAwards #booktok #TheSaltireSociety
ALT Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close Beethoven's Assassins by Andrew Crumey Clear by Carys Davies Lost People by Margaret Elphinstone Deliver Me by Elle Nash Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam The Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sara Sheridan Catch the Moments as they Fly by Zoë Strachan
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Nervously waiting in the lovely Green Room at the #pbf2024 with the fabulous women @ajayclose and @writerkcampbell
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As this year's #WomensHistoryMonth draws to a close, the audiobook of #WhatDoesntKillUs by @AjayClose is now available.
Listen to a sample here:
youtu.be/DWoMHsX9yYY?feature… xitter.cf/SarabandBooks/status/1…
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Leeds Feminist book launch: “What Doesn’t Kill Us” tells the story of Reclaim the Night & the Women’s Movement in 1970s Leeds, showing what’s changed, & what hasn’t. Author Ajay Close researched her new novel in the city. Wed 13 Mar 6.30-7.30 Leeds Central Library Rm 700 PAYF
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Ajay will be in conversation with Diana Muir, who was a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post in 1978. Copies of the book will be available on the night.
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Congratulations Ajay - and what a fine novel this is. So full of life and authenticity and humour.
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This week at #STUC22 - Unite delegates brought #JobsPayConditions to the heart of the Trade Union movement.
@MaryAlexander_ gives the Unite recap incl:
⚕️The National Care Service
🚖'Get Me Home Safely'
💰Fair Work & Local Government Pay
💪🏽Indian Farmers & big collective action
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Winning on new favourite graphic design platform. @canva... ridiculously please at being able to top and tail this video @AjayClose, which she filmed to promote @WIJ_Scotland's forthcoming Book Salon. It's hosted by @MsABurnside. Tickets free for members and £5 for non-members.
"Smile, he says in her ear. You look like a headgehog with toothache." Join journalist turned author @AjayClose & @MsABurnside at 7pm 30/11/20 for a discussion about Ajay’s novel, What We Did in The Dark (@sandstonepress) 📚
Members/non-members ALL welcome eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-…
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@WIJ_Scotland’s new Book Salon is launching with a special online event on Mon Nov 30, at which award-winning journalist turned author, @AjayClose will discuss her recently-published 6th novel, What We Did In The Dark with @MsABurnside 📚
Have YOU booked? eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-…
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'I made what may be called a rash and foolish marriage to a man I scarcely knew.'
@AjayClose reads from her new novel about Catherine Carswell's first marriage, What We Did in the Dark.
sandstonepress.com/books/wha…
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I blogged about my book salon's origin story in the run up to its new incarnation, as a @WIJ_Scotland project with guest author @AjayClose
wijscotland.com/news/anna-bu…
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‘Catherine Carswell wrote about everything else that happened to her, but not her first marriage... so I thought I’d better write about it.’ @AjayClose
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#OpenTheDoor at @womenslibrary was an absolutely wonderful. So many brilliant women in one room talking about writing (and reading)
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TONIGHT! @AjayClose at @BirksCinema talking about The Daughter of Lady Macbeth goo.gl/p5wVKZ #LadyMacbeth #booklaunch
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I reviewed @AjayClose's cracking The Daughter of Lady Macbeth @AmazonUK published by Dingwall-based @sandstonepress amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/review/19…
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#InternationalWomensDay event! @AjayClose and @SalleyVickers will be in conversation at @ToppingsStAs this Wednesday goo.gl/wIhpYA
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Tons of good stuff on this afternoon's @BBCJFCulture incl @JillBrownMusic singing @alisonjfwatt talking #AshesToArt & @AjayClose on new book xitter.cf/gsofamedia/status/8386…
Listen to @BBCJFCulture today to hear acclaimed artists @alisonjfwatt and Martin Boyce on Ash to Art project for @GSofA @MackRestoration
