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Ellie Walker-Arnott's News & Views

Kilburn's most famous son turns 130
18/01/2012

Born in North London in 1882, A.A. Milne’s love affair with the written word began while he was...

Burnside wins £15,000 T S Eliot Prize
17/01/2012

John Burnside has won the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for poetry for his collection Black Cat Bone...

"Truthful, raw and messy", The Descendants scoops at Golden Globes
16/01/2012

The Descendants has bagged Best Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes, with the...

International Prize for Arabic Fiction Shortlist announced
11/01/2012

Novels by Jabbour Douaihy, Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, Rabee Jaber, Nasser Iraq, Bashir Mufti and...

Ellie Walker-Arnott's Reviews

Diving Belles
Lucy Wood
Posted 19/01/2012

Set on the desolate moors and ragged coastline of rural Cornwall, Lucy Wood’s debut short story collection creates a powerful patchwork of lives tangled up in the myth and folklore that surrounds t

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The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
Sue Townsend
Posted 29/02/2012

On the morning her twins leave home for university, Eva Beaver throws tomato soup over a chair she spent years embroidering and gets into bed.

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The Girl in the Mask
Marie-Louise Jensen
Posted 06/03/2012

Returning from the West Indies in 1715, Sophia’s father finds his daughter unsupervised and grown into an unruly, but educated, young woman.  

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Cuckoo in the Nest
Nat Luurtsema
Posted 13/04/2012

Stand up comedian Nat Luurtsema has suddenly found herself a victim of the recession.

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A Good American
Alex George
Posted 30/07/2012

When Frederick Meisenheimer begins serenading his future wife Jette from behind a privet hedge in Havover’s Grosse Garten, the course of both their lives changes forever. 

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