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a strange day to feel anything good, but I am so thrilled that @ViragoBooks will be publishing my new novel, NATURAL DISASTER
Nice news on a dark day - @ViragoBooks to publish the new novel - Natural Disaster - by the inimitable @lamowens. Summer '26!
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I really loved writing the introduction to FAMILY HAPPINESS, which @wnbooks are reissuing so beautifully this week along with two other Laurie Colwin classics — if you haven’t read her yet, I envy you! 🩷🩵🤍❤️
from The Light Years (Cazalets) by Elizabeth Jane Howard — a beautiful, endlessly insightful and understanding book
feel incredibly lucky to be working with @sarahsavitt and @ViragoBooks — and very grateful to my brilliant agent Jane Finigan at @LandRAgency
We are delighted to have acquired Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens.
From Sarah Savitt, Virago Publisher: 'Lisa Owens is such a talented writer. I was laughing from the first page and then finished the novel with tears in my eyes'
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giving the gift of space & time to other writers is such a brilliant, generous and supportive initiative
Happy to announce I've founded a new prize for UK writers - the RSL Scriptorium Awards - which offers my pension-investment cottage on the Kent coast to writers for free for up to a month each. Applications open Spring 2025. A jury will choose the writers & I will have zero involvement in the selection. For more details, follow @RSLiterature, visit their website, and check out this Guardian article. Sadly, due to ongoing attacks, I have to state that this is a philanthropic gesture, I am offering the cottage for free & further supporting the prize & I am, therefore, of course, in no way earning any income from it. (I know, go figure) I have set up several literature inclusion projects over the decades (look under 'Community' on my website) & this one shares the Booker Bounty!
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there’s a half-full bottle of Lucozade rolling around the top deck of the bus, people gently deflecting it with their feet when it comes to them — lovely when the community comes together like this
love Slow Horses but it was very funny that they tried to get away with having Nick Drake on as quiet background music in a standard pub — from the first note it was clear they would be turning that right up for the cut to black
there is a T-shirt I’ve worn so much and had for so long it’s organically achieved the distress levels of a new All Saints garment
‘For so many decades of my writing life I was ‘the only woman on the panel’ … by the end I felt like suing for being in a hostile working environment; you couldn’t be a writer, you had to be a woman who wrote. It drove me, literally, nuts’ Anne Enright
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