Kate Clanchy

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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‘Antigona,’ I said. ‘How would you feel if I wrote your life down in a book?’

‘Good,’ she said at once. ‘Good. And then a feature film, actually. Mini-series.’

One morning in London, two neighbours start to chat over ...

• Oct-2009
• / Science Fiction
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‘Antigona,’ I said. ‘How would you feel if I wrote your life down in a book?’

‘Good,’ she said at once. ‘Good. And then a feature film, actually. Mini-series.’

One morning in London, two neighbours start to chat over th...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Few first collections in recent years have made the impact of Kate Clanchy’s award-winning Slattern, which gained her a reputation as a poet of great immediacy and wit. In this new book her range is extended dramatically. Samarkand is both a darker...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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In response to an advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives at a creaky mansion in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwrig...

• Jun-2018
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'Not just good for school children, but great by any standard' - Phillip Pullman Oxford Spires Academy is a small comprehensive school with 30 languages - and one special focus: poetry. In the last five years, its students have won every prize going....

• Jun-2022
• / General Fiction
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'Literary hand grenades, raising difficult questions about the world in which we live' - GuardianIn the sixteen stories of The Not-Dead and The Saved, Kate Clanchy turns her clear gaze and remarkable honesty on what it means to be a mother or a child...