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The Best Novels about Witches and Witch Hunts
Novels about witches and witch trials have been finding large new audiences in recent years, with some brilliant new additions to the genre—your The Witching Tide among them. Is there something in the ether? When my book came out in 2023, I think there were at least ten other witch hunt books published in the same year. I used to joke that we, ‘the Coven,’ had made a conscious decision all to publish at the same time.
Le Glouton de A. K. Blakemore
Sœur Perpétue doit veiller sur un patient à propos duquel courent de glaçantes rumeurs. En proie à une faim dévorante et insatiable, Tarare aurait englouti toutes sortes d’objets et de créatures, mortes comme vivantes. Celui qui fut un jour un petit garçon candide au grand cœur a croisé, sur les routes d’une France en pleine Révolution, des hommes qui n’ont pas hésité à instrumentaliser son formidable appétit pour leur propre profit ou par curiosité malsaine.
Halloween - The London Magazine
Staff Picks for Halloween . Unless you’re in the category of people dressing up in costumes that appeal to the zeitgeist and taking to the streets, Halloween can be a good occasion to turn to the genres of ghost stories and horror by writers new and old.
Edith Holler: Edward Carey in Conversation with A.K. Blakemore
Norwich, 1901. Twelve year old Edith Holler spends her days among the eccentric denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she ever leaves. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, Edith writes a play of her own about Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of children to make the local delicacy, Beetle Spread.
Caleb Azumah Nelson, A K Blakemore and Ayòbámi Adébáyò shortlisted for £20k Dylan Thomas Prize
Caleb Azumah Nelson, A K Blakemore and Ayòbámi Adébáyò are among those shortlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize with five of the six titles published by independent presses. Worth £20,000, this global accolade recognises exceptional literary talent aged 39 or under, celebrating the international world of fiction in all its forms including poetry, novels, short stories and drama.
THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE REVEALS INTERNATIONAL LONGLIST FOR 2024
The international longlist for the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers – the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize – is announced today, Thursday 25January. With authors hailing from the UK, Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, US, Canada, and Hong Kong, this year’s international longlist is dominated by independent publishers – with nine indie titles.
Edinburgh author on longest for literary prize
The work is a short story collection by the Edinburgh-based author. Grudova is the third Granta Best Young British Novelist 2023 to be nominated. Through a series of surreal tales she exposes the absurdity behind contemporary ideas of work, Britishness and art-making. This is a prestigious literary award for young writers and those who are being considered include writers from the UK, Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, US, Canada and Hong Kong. This year’s list is dominated by independent publishers.
The Best Books of 2023: Fiction
From the epic voyages of Ancient Greece to changing attitudes on the cusp of the twentieth century, the best historical fiction of 2023 has seen widely lauded work from Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, A.K. Blakemore and many others, proving that past centuries make for increasingly relevant and engrossing settings to modern readers.
The Best Books of 2023: Fiction
From the epic voyages of Ancient Greece to changing attitudes on the cusp of the twentieth century, the best historical fiction of 2023 has seen widely lauded work from Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, A.K. Blakemore and many others, proving that past centuries make for increasingly relevant and engrossing settings to modern readers.
Reading List: International Women’s Day - Exact Editions Blog
Today marks International Women’s Day, held on the 8th of March each year. This year’s theme #EmbraceEquity aims to get the world talking about why equal opportunities aren’t enough. The Exact Editions’ International Women’s Day Reading List has been created in collaboration with 7 publishers who have recommended books that celebrate the achievements of women, raise awareness of discrimination, and promote taking action for equality.
The Best Novels of 2021
It’s that time of year again. At literary magazines and supplements everywhere, professional readers and writers are casting their minds back, trying to recall the books that have most impressed and enthralled them. And far be it from me to pass up on an excuse to recommend my favourite reads; find below my personal selection of five of the best novels of 2021. I feel duty bound to offer a quick disclaimer.
Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist characterised by "invention, playfulness and above all, joy"
The National Centre for Writing has today announced the three titles shortlisted for the 2021 Desmond Elliott Prize. The Manningtree Witches by A. K. Blakemore, little scratch by Rebecca Watson and The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams are all in the running to win the £10,000 prize and be named the year’s best first novel from across the UK and Ireland.
The Manningtree Witches by A. K. Blakemore
zoom A. K. Blakemore (author) £12.99 Hardback 304 Pages / Published: 04/03/2021 10+ in stock Available Quantity This item has been added to your basket Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. Please check by using Click & Collect A visceral and gripping debut novel from poet A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches takes the reader into the midst of the Puritan regime and harrowing witch trials of seventeenth-century England.
The Manningtree Witches
Review by Chris H, Reviewer Last updated on 22 Feb 2021 My Recommendation England. The county of Essex. The 1640s. And as the war between King and Parliament rages around them, the women of Manningtree are confronted by a new threat in the form of the charismatic young witchfinder, Matthew Hopkins.
father’s last escape by A. K. Blakemore
After Bruno Schulz like my father i was intensely awkward around the unwell. he had a single pair of shoes—saddle brown leather. he handled these as carefully as neolithic skulls. he first reappeared as an insect. arriving home, we opened the box, with its punched-in air holes, and there he was, very green and flat as a tapeworm, mother relieved by the attentiveness of his small yellow eyes, concerned, as always, that his size implied inanition.
Forgotten Women: The Writers, with Zing Tsjeng, Kit de Waal, A. K. Blakemore and Marta Bausells
the lost ‘herstories’ of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. We’re hosting author of Forgotten Women: The Writers and UK Broadly editor,as part of a two-part event series.
dicks like jesus
three days of vestry weather and the pinot hitting a stomach raw to produce a lilac mood where simply everyone is watching we the shaved en cas d’incendie – skimming death’s-heads and dropping blows through intercourse pearl-bordered & replete with sense of whimsy – imagination unseemly after four years coiled on his pillow in pear-cut stones asking would you rather be shot or sued.
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