Tag: Bristol novel
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Clare McKintosh, I Let You Go
Bristol-born Clare Mackinstosh’s debut novel I Let You Go has been a runaway success and even beat fellow Bristol-(Yate)-novelist, JK Rowling. n the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016. What I Let You Go is about (from the website) In a split second, Jenna Gray’s world is shattered. Her only hope […]
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Week 6: Eye Contact vs Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion
Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion is published by Wizard’s Tower Press who also produced the tribute Colinthology. They are a curious publisher who specialise in science fiction and fantasy but don’t want submissions and won’t read them if you send any. This isn’t the only reason they have become a firm favourite, they are also […]
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Week 2: The Shock of the Fall vs The Choice
Pitting Susan Lewis against Nathan Filer is like making Tweetie bird fight Muhammad Ali and I just don’t have it in me. Well, I do but I’ll do my best to keep as bloodless as possible. vs The Shock of the Fall describes the life of a boy from Bristol dealing with his grief at […]
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Week 1: Heartman vs Colinthology
Round 1, between Heartman and Colinthology, may be the most Bristolian of all because it is full of the paradoxes that make this city what it is. From spring to nearly winter there is a festival every weekend and one of the biggest celebrations took place yesterday at the very heart of St Paul’s and […]
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The best Bristol novel – the longlist
This is the second stage of finding the best Bristol novel ever written and some themes are coming through quite clearly: Drugs, violence, the seedier side of life, slavery, and sailing. This post provides a summary of each novel I discovered. I have selected 40 books for this longlist and have left reasons for disqualifications. […]
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Bristol book tournament
In Progress: last updated 09 August, 2013 07.58am And the best ever Bristol novel is … (the list so far) LA Weekly have been running a 32-book tournament to discover the best LA novel ever written and it got me thinking about the best Bristol book and how to find it. Bristol has a long […]
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