Christy Edwall
@CLEdwall
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writer • reader • HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT (@GrantaBooks, Feb 23) @theTLS, @GrantaMag, @stingingfly • represented by @AEEWebber @UnitedAgents
Brighton, England
Joined March 2014
Delighted to be spending time at Shoreham Port this year!
We are pleased to introduce @CLEdwall as our first Writer in Residence at Shoreham Port! We look forward to welcoming Christy and seeing how her plans develop through the winter. Christy will offer two creative writing classes for locals; details to be announced soon.
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‘Notable authors and writers’ according to the Life in the UK test: Rowling but not George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter etc etc
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What a lovely list! If you’ve got a spare minute, you can join the club & vote for the shortlist at
notabeneprize.com
CHRYSALIS by Anna Metcalfe and HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT by @CLEdwall are both on the longlist for the @NBmagazineUK Nota Bene prize! 🎉 Anyone can vote for the titles they think should make it to the shortlist stage, so cast your votes here⬇️ https://t.co/0ejKnu9PDs
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Incredible news: Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus freed from Iranian jail in prisoner swap | Sweden | The Guardian
theguardian.com
Iranian-Swedish citizen Saeed Azizi also exchanged for Hamid Noury, who was serving life in Sweden for role in death of political prisoners
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Enjoy!
What will you be reading for @WorldBookNight next week? Here are just some of our suggestions for the weekend ahead, all available to borrow from your library! #WeekendReads #LoveYourLibrary
@Mary_Karras1 @LVaughanwrites @juliathrillers @CLEdwall
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‘We care for and nurture our children so that the government can rip them away from us.’ - Raphael López Catarino
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One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Since then, their families have fought for answers.
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Drop what you're doing and go to Ditchling. Modernist weavers/lovers, natural dyes, Ben Hur, it's all happening https://t.co/9WKBptY013
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HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT, @CLEdwall's debut novel, publishes today in paperback 'An intelligent debut' Observer 'Fizzes with smart observations on modern life’ Daily Mail 'There’s a real energy and poise to Edwall’s prose' Literary Review https://t.co/DVg7LF56pT
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So excited to send this hot little number into the world today
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Also no one told me the Amish now have eyeliner and wheelie suitcases
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Eavesdropping on an Amish man giving a history of the Alsace-Lorraine region
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Ok I got very confused about this, but A FLAT PLACE does seem to be on the New Yorker’s list of ‘Best Books of 2023’?
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I'm delighted to be speaking and performing from my recent book, THE GREEN LADY, this Sunday at Shoreham Wordfest. For more on The Green Lady listen here: https://t.co/NJiJk9Su3K & https://t.co/LF1mfgJIw1
@CLEdwall @LancingCollege @ShortBookScribe @pykelets @GeorginaEMW
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Podcast Episode · A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley · 26/07/2023 · 8m
AUTHOR TALKS The Green Lady – Novel by #SallyBayley £5 DISCOUNT! Code: sally23 A22 - Adult tickets £10 October 15 @ 1:00 pm #TheShorehamCentre
#LemnSissay loves Sally Bayley’s writing and says “No-one writes like Sally Bayley.” https://t.co/zC6dX77XpK
#ShorehamWordfest2023
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