Author and literary journalist @TheTLS @guardian @WSJ @LRB etc. THE CHOSEN shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2023. Agent @AMHeathLtd
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Beyond thrilled to see #TheChosen shortlisted for the #HWACrowns23 📚Congratulations to all the other shortlisted writers - terrific to be in such brilliant company! And huge & grateful thanks to the judges: you’ve made my day @LizzieMastersUK @riverrun @amheath @waltscottprize
The Chosen: Elizabeth Lowry
A beautifully-written study of Thomas Hardy's first marriage. Powerful and compelling, demonstrates not just a love of Hardy's work but also real insight into the tales we tell ourselves to mask our frailties and delusions
#HWACrowns23 #Gold #histfic
I wrote for this week’s @TheTLS about Hermione Lee’s wonderfully acute biography of Anita Brookner, and the private life Brookner worked so hard to conceal #bookspotlight
Albert Camus’s notebooks; the secret life of Anita Brookner; Ukraine at war; a newly discovered story by Rebecca West; open season on Barbara Cartland; between deafness and the hearing world – and much more: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
I wrote about what Golding did after Lord of the Flies for @wsjbooks 🪰Four Novels by William Golding - WSJ wsj.com/arts-culture/books/m…
The writer, the lover and the estate agent are of imagination all compact.
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This review of Elizabeth Strout's new novel by @MElizabethLowry is terrific. More of this! A conservative publication conceding the author throws in gratuitous political jabs but calling the book 'superb' on its merit. Would left-leaning media do the same?
telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t…
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Nothing is more humbling than spending 4 hours researching the specific architectural layout of a 14th century tavern just to write the sentence: "They went inside."
Absolutely thrilled to be starting as a RLF Fellow this week at Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages 😊 Thank you @royallitfund @UniofOxford @OxfordModLangs ✍️ #teaching
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I, for one, enjoy knowing that Edna St Vincent Millay ate off of witch-patterned Wedgwood earthenware, pictured here next to her hunting rifle
Congratulations! 👏 Such an incredibly well-deserved win! #amreading #HistoricalFiction
Andrew Miller has won the 2025 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction with THE LAND IN WINTER ( @SceptreBooks ) his novel set in a remote English community during the long, hard winter of 1962/63. Learn more:
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#TheLandinWinter #AndrewMiller
I wrote about Jo Harkin’s exuberant and moving new novel set during the Wars of the Roses for @WSJ #amreading #historicalfiction wsj.com/arts-culture/books/t…
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Thomas Hardy was born #OTD 2 June 1840. If I was sent to a desert island and could only take half a dozen books with me, one of them would be 'Under The Greenwood Tree', 1872. It's a lovely book, a tale to reread in winter, a vivid story of rural characters and their relationships, full of humour, but with one of those moral dilemmas for which he would become famous.
Most Hardy novels don't have happy endings, but this one does ('Far From the Madding Crowd' is another). Today, Hardy is perhaps more admired for his poetry than his novels. When I was younger I would have enthused about his more depressing novels, especially 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' and 'Jude the Obscure'. Now I'm older, I know I'll never read those books again. Wisely, Hardy gave up writing novels when he reached his fifties, and stuck to poetry.
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A repost for Thomas Hardy's birthday.
#thomashardy #thomashardypoetry #beenycliff @hardysociety #poetry #poemoftheday #poemaday #poetrycommunity
#poem #dailypost #dailypoem #dailypoems #writing #worldofpoetry #poemadaychallenge #inspiration #poetryinstagram #instapoet
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Thomas Hardy, born #OTD 2 June 1840
Wishing one of Britain’s greatest writers a very happy 185th birthday.
I wrote about this marvellous production of #ThreeSisters @The_Globe for @TheTLS. You can still catch it till 19 April #theatre #Chekhov #SamWanamakerPlayhouse
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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @KieranSetiya on pessimism; @calrevelycalder on Beckett; @MElizabethLowry on Chekhov’s Three Sisters; Larry Wolff and @dlbirch1 on reworkings of Moby-Dick; Carol J. Oja on Black classical music in Chicago – and more
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‘Sue Prideaux's new biography has real bite… The author does a superb job of re-examining the ways in which Gauguin "smashed the established Western canon”’
@MElizabethLowry reviews Wild Thing (@FaberBooks) @TheTLS
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I learn so much from novels. Types of knots, types of boats, types of whales, parts of whales, methods for processing whales, what can be made from whale, shape of whale, what the whale did, the whale's likely motivation, color of said whale, metaphysical ramifications of said co
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Thomas Hardy Society Journal is looking for submissions to our 'Creative Responses to Hardy' section. Past submissions have included poems, illustrations, letters, and personal responses to Hardy's works.
Get in touch at [email protected]
Nice to see this recent piece on Jane Austen’s endings which I did for @WSJBooks quoted in @washingreview
Featuring: @MElizabethLowry in @WSJ on a book about Jane Austen’s endings, @victoriamoul on Housman, and @arrroberts on daffodils in Homer and Wordsworth… (1/2)
Reading too much #Austen may have us longing for outcomes the author was too wise to wish on her characters. My (not entirely serious) thoughts in this weekend’s @WSJBooks👇#amreading
Source: WSJ search.app/UHtQMdsXDtCvpiV57