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Listen to Juliet Stevenson Read ‘A Quiet Tidy Man’

July 22, 2016July 21, 2021 / Claire Fuller / 9 Comments

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Recently I was delighted to announce that my short story, A Quiet Tidy Man, was the winner of the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016. It was read in front of an audience by the actress, Juliet Stevenson, and that recording is now available Continue reading →

Winning the Royal Academy / Pin Drop short story award

June 25, 2016June 25, 2016 / Claire Fuller / 17 Comments

 

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Yesterday my short story, A Quiet Tidy Man, won the Royal Academy of Arts / Pin Drop short story award 2016. The six shortlisted authors were invited to a ceremony at the Royal Academy in London, where the actress, Juliet Stevenson, announced the winner and read the story to an audience of about a hundred people.  Continue reading →

Royal Academy / Pin Drop Shortlisting

May 31, 2016May 31, 2016 / Claire Fuller / 5 Comments

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Today I heard that my short story, A Quiet Tidy Man, has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy / Pin Drop short story competition 2016.

I’m very excited because the six shortlisted authors (from a longlist of 23) have been invited to the awards ceremony at the 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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I’m going on a UK book tour for Hunger and Thirst! Small Bomb at Dimperley by @lissakevans is a warm, funny, comfort read, full of brilliant characters who leap off the page and straight onto my list of best books of the year. I recently finished reading (listening to on @xigxag_official) The Correspondent by @virginia.l.evans and I loved it. It’s a novel of letters sent and received. Sybil Van Antwerp is in her 70s and has spent a lifetime writing to her best friend, her brother who lives in France, the son of a friend, several famous writers, a customer service agent and various others. We learn about her and her life in what she reveals or hides from others. She’s prickly but compassionate and gradually her own pain is exposed. Winchester & Hampshire friends! Come and celebrate the launch of Hunger and Thirst with me on 8th May @arcwinch. Hosted by @winchester_books_festival, there will be drinks and cake, and a competition to win some bookish goodies from @penguinfigtree. Copies of Hunger and Thirst will be available to buy from @pgwellsbookshop. And I’ll be interviewed by the lovely @margotgoodlife. I’d love it if you could join me. Delighted to be on the cover of @_thebookseller today with a great interview by Alice O’Keeffe, talking about Hunger and Thirst. And can you spot the fly?? I can’t decide what I think of The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits because there are bits I really liked (the ending, and the whole hospital section), and bits that worked less well (the main character’s visits to family and old friends), but maybe Markovits is being cleverer than I think. Here’s a very speedy video of some of the books that I’ve been sent recently and I’m looking forward to reading. Thanks to all the publishers, publishes and authors who have sent me these. My US publisher @tin_house is giving my backlist some love, so look out for their ads. This time it’s the turn of Unsettled Ground, my fourth novel. I’m still thinking about this one, and that’s a good thing. Adi is grieving the death of his 11-year-old son and the end of his marriage when he gets a job on a pacific island that he is supremely unqualified for: to shoot all the 3,000 or so goats that are killing the indigenous species. The goats are there because whalers dropped them off in order to have some food when they next came past the island. Can Adi rectify the environmental mistakes that humans have made?
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