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Do You Judge a Book by its … Author Photograph?

June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 / Claire Fuller / 40 Comments

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Here’s a task for you: get five or so hardback books and look at the author photographs in the back. How many writers are smiling? How many look pensive? Which of them would influence what you think about the book? Continue reading →


I have written six novels: The Memory of Animals, Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, Unsettled Ground, and forthcoming, Hunger and Thirst. Click 'About' in the top menu to find out more.

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A wonderful evening yesterday @bookhausbristol for Hunger and Thirst. @phillimilne asking the questions - great to see her again nine years after meeting @litfest_hk! And we had a couple of songs from @henryaylingguitarist - a Townes van Zandt (Swimming Lessons) and another written by Henry from his album- We Roamed Through the Garden (Unsettled Ground). So lovely to see @joleevers and @dagsbg_ and a whole Arvon crowd including @harrietleemerrion who decided to get some temporary fly tattoos (so temporary they looked like teddybears after three minutes!) Sign up now for the free 5-day writing challenge that I created for @arvon__ starting on Monday 20th July. Inspired by the National Year of Reading, I’ll ask you to start with a line from a published novel to create your own piece of work over five days. Follow the link in @arvon__’s bio to register. It seems I have a bit of a thing for novels which feature artists. Here are seven favourites, three of which were in my top reads for 2022, 2024, and 2025. I’m looking at you Take What You Need by @idranovey, Burntcoat by Sarah Hall, and The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman. But I would recommend them all, and if you’re also into fiction about artists, then you might like to take a look at Hunger and Thirst too. If you’ve read Hunger and Thirst you will have come across Georgie Bates a character who is a second year art student at the art school where the main character works in the post room. You might like to know that Georgie is a real person and a great friend who is still creating beautiful paintings @georgie_bates_studio. You should take a look. On 17th June I’ll be @bookhausbristol chatting about my latest novel, Hunger and Thirst. And excitingly we’ll have special guest @henryaylingguitarist who will be playing music that’s featured in my books. A special #clairesbooksatbreakfast today, featuring my latest novel, Hunger and Thirst which was published by @tin_house on 2 June. Thank you for having me @harrisharrisbooks! I had a wonderful Hunger and Thirst event last night in Suffolk. Interviewed by the brilliant @karen_angelico and of course got to meet again the lovely Kate, book shop owner. If you live anywhere nearby, you must pay a visit because it is a wonderful shop. I also got to meet loads of their customers, including this man in the photos (who I’ve forgotten the name of) who had come from Seattle for this event! Today I’m so excited to let you know that my sixth novel Hunger and Thirst is published in the US by @tin_house and in Canada by Bond Street Books @doubledayca. Aren’t these covers amazing? I’m absolutely delighted that the short story anthology, Unquiet Guests, in which I have a short story called A Land Beneath, has been nominated for the @shirleyjacksonawards in the category of Edited Anthology. Congratulations to @dan.coxon.author, our editor and @deadinkbooks as well as to the other authors who have a story in this anthology. And to all the other shortlisted anthologies.
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