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‘This is Lime, this is Gul Mohar, this is Mountain laurel’ by Usha Akella

12th May 202022nd May 2020  Usha Akella

Our Poetry editor, Usha Akella, recalls her time studying for an MSt. in Creative Writing at Cambridge and considers how the flora and fauna of the city inspired her writing and helped her navigate and connect with a new place.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Environment, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, PoetryTagged: Byron, Cambridge, Daffodils, Dev Patel, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Lime Trees, Lucy Cavendish College, Madingley Hall, Poetry, Ramanujam, Romantic Poets, Usha Akella, Wordsworth

The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu – a beautiful, funny, warm debut

13th December 201913th December 2019  Victoria Smith

With The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney, Okechuckwu Nzelu has crafted a brilliant novel about a young woman trying to discover her Nigerian roots and navigate the complexities of love.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Cambridge, Dialogue Books, Novel, Okechukwu Nzelu, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

Breach Theatre’s ‘It’s True, It’s True, It’s True’ at the Cambridge Junction

20th October 201920th October 2019  Carla Plieth

Breach Theatre present their award-winning play, It’s True, It’s True, It’s True, about the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, her poignant paintings and the sexual assault trial that shook Renaissance Rome.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Artemisia Gentileschi, Breach Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge Junction, Ellie Stevens, It's True It's True It's True, Kathryn Bond, Renaissance, Sophie Steer

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins – a stunning, atmospheric debut

8th April 201922nd April 2019  My Ly

After several years in London, Jamaican servant Frannie Langton finds herself on trial for the murder of her English master and mistress – but she has no memory of that fatal evening. Our arts contributor, My Ly, reviews Sara Collins’ atmospheric and evocative debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Britain and Colonialism, Cambridge, Creative Writing, Frannie Langton, Gothic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Neo-Victorian, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Novel, Penguin, Sara Collins, Slavery and the British Empire, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Viking

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival

14th January 201928th January 2019  Lucy Writers

Our editor-in-chief, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, looks ahead to some of the highlights of the first ever Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival, taking place this Saturday.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy FeaturesTagged: Cambridge, Frances Maynard, Jane Eyre, Jo Browning-wroe, Kay Loftus, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Lesley Sanderson, Literature, Little Brown, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize festival, Lucy Malagoni, Miranda Doyle, Nelle Andrew, Sara Collins, Sophie Hannah, Sphere, Swan Song, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Virago
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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