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An interview with acclaimed author Dr Pragya Agarwal: ‘Men write smart thinking books and women are not taken seriously until they write a memoir.’

19th April 202319th April 2023  Georgia Poplett

Our writer Georgia Poplett talks to scientist and author Dr Pragya Agarwal about what led her to write her latest book, Hysterical, the damaging history of gendered emotions, representation in data, subverting the classics and why the (feminist) future is bright – and furious!

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Posted in Arts, Books, Health and Wellbeing, InterviewsTagged: Canongate, Emotions, Gender, gendered emotions, Georgia Poplett, Hysterical, Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions, Pragya Agarwal

Interview with prize-winning writer, Nina Mingya Powles: ‘I tend to think of poems as physical objects’

5th April 20216th April 2021  Sammy Weaver

Our writer, Sammy Weaver, talks to poet, essayist and zine-maker, Nina Mingya Powles, about her recent poetry collection, Magnolia, 木蘭, formal techniques and writing, cooking as creativity, Anne Carson as inspiration and her upcoming book, Small Bodies of Water.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Alison Wong, Anne Carson, Canongate, Elena Ferrante, essays, Katherine Mansfield, Magnolia, nature writing, Nina Mingya Powles, Nine Arches Press, Poetry, Small Bodies of Water, The Emma Press, Tiny Moons

Booker Prize Shortlist 2020: a daring, diverse and deserving line-up of authors

12th November 202013th November 2020  Lucy Writers

Our contributors review this year’s Booker Prize shortlist and find a daring and diverse list of authors from around the world who all deserve to be celebrated.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Avni Doshi, Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize, Booker Prize 2020, Brandon Taylor, Canongate, Diane Cook, Douglas Stuart, Faber & Faber, Maata Mengiste, Man Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Busby, Oneworld Publications, Picador, The Booker Prize 2019, Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tracey Thorn’s Another Planet, A Teenager in Suburbia – A highly absorbing work of non-fiction

24th April 201924th April 2019  Tracy-Ann Neville

Tracey Thorn’s honest and highly absorbing work of creative non-fiction, Another Planet, brings together the teenage diaries of the Everything But The Girl singer before the musical success of the 90s.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: 90s Pop, Another Planet, Another Planet A Teenager in Suburbia, Ben Watt, Canongate, Everything But The Girl, Kate Mossman, memoir, Surburbia, Teenagers, The New Statesman, Tracey Thorn
  • An interview with author Siân Hughes: ‘the heart of the mystery is this dangerous ground of motherhood’
    By Rym Kechacha
  • Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
    By Julia Bagguley
  • In conversation with Ennatu Domingo: ‘To belong somewhere new, you have to feel at peace with the place you left behind’
    By Emily Walters
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