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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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Join me for the online launch of the @tin_house publication of Hunger and Thirst in the US. On June 4, I’ll be chatting with @mlfaliveno about the book, inspiration, spooky houses and art. This free event is hosted by @thewriterscenter and anyone around the world can join (6pm EST /11pm BST), just follow the link in my bio to upcoming events, or write ‘Hunger and Thirst’ in a comment and I’ll DM you the zoom link. Fantastic event tonight @forumbookscorbridge (in Whitley Bay). Thanks @sarahdavywrites for the great questions and so lovely to meet lots of Instagram friends including @bookish_walker (completely forgot to take photos of the others)! Next stop @hayfestival. Hope to see some of you there! A wonderful evening @kempsmalton talking about Hunger and Thirst. So lovely to meet Liz, the shop owner, Jo for her brilliant questions (sorry for giving you the heebie jeebies), and a fantastic audience including these four who kept us all laughing. Some of my favourite things: buying books, reading books, visiting book shops, meeting booksellers, signing books. Thank you Edinburgh bookshops, you were wonderful. @portybooks @rarebirdsbooks @waterstones_edi @blackwelledin Thanks for a great Hunger and Thirst event @toppingsedin! Signed 70 copies of the book and some backlist. Wonderful questions from bookseller, Rachel and the audience, and I got to meet @krystelle_bamford, author of Idle Grounds, a favourite novel of mine. (Forgot to take a picture together.) Thanks for having me @waterstonesromsey. What a fantastic audience, including @the.literary.traveller. Great questions from the lovely Julia. And we all laughed a lot, despite talking about scary things! This has a long slow build to the action. I was happy to find out about Frances and her mother and their paying guests, Lillian and Leonard. It’s 1922 and after the death of her brothers and father, and the discovering that he had invested poorly, Frances and her mother have no choice but to take in two married lodgers of the ‘clerk class’. All is well for a while until slowly, so slowly (which I enjoyed), Frances and Lillian begin an affair. It’s never going to end well, no matter how big their Camberwell house, and yes, maybe I could see what was coming, but I still enjoyed it and was gripped from about half way through. Not as good as The Little Stranger, but very good. In 2014 @hannahrichell’ s husband Matt died in a surfing accident in Sydney. An Ocean and a Day is the story of how they met and fell in love, their move to Australia, the two children they had together, the shock of the day Matt died, how she got through the immediate aftermath and how she’s healed in the subsequent ten years. It’s about keeping going. Book tour for Hunger and Thirst is underway! It was great to visit so many gorgeous book shops for events and for signing stock this week. And wonderful to meet loads of readers and other writers, and get even get @gentle_human stamping flies in the books I signed. The final picture shows where I’ll be next (including one online event next week). If you’d like more info, comment with the location you’re interested in and I’ll DM you with the link.
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