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Elizabeth Baines

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Bridgend, South Wales, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.elizabethbaines.com

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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March 2008

About this author

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Novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her collection of stories BALANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, and her latest novel, TOO MANY MAGPIES, are published by Salt Publishing. In October 2010 Salt reissued her groundbreaking first novel, THE BIRTH MACHINE.

Praise for Elizabeth's work:

'Moving and compelling' - Sarah Salway on Too Many Magpies

'Quite swept me off my feet' - Dovegreyreader on Balancing on the Edge of the World

'A gripping story, a pithy book' - Katy Campbell on The Birth Machine

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Elizabeth Baines's Blog

Avian distractions

I'm in Wales at the moment. I've been working on a short story and trying to write a review but I've been very distracted - not just by the beautiful weather but by this nest of baby crows right outside the house and above my writing window (you can see two in the pic, but there were four altogether). We first noticed them on Thursday, the morning after we got here, and it soon became clear th... read more »

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Books by Elizabeth Baines

Average rating: 3.85 · 41 ratings · 26 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Too Many Magpies 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Balancing on the Edge of the World 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Birth Machine 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Compass And Torch 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	A Glossary Of Bread 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Body Cuts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	Best Radio Plays of 1989 by Craig Warner, Elizabeth Baines (Goodreads Author), Richard Nelson 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990	My rating:

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The Spare Room

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Elizabeth Baines wrote a new blog post: Avian distractions Avian distractions I'm in Wales at the moment. I've been working on a short story and trying to write a review but I've been very distracted - not just by the beautif... read more »
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Elizabeth Baines joined the Anglo-Welsh Literature group.
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Elizabeth Baines gave to: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland	My rating:
I loved the prose style for its wit,but I feel the bright brittle surface is in danger of belying some serious issues. My reading group disagreed about it strongly, as you can read here: http://elizabethbaines.blogspot.co.uk...
Mar 19, 2012 03:23pm · see review
Elizabeth Baines gave to: The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue by Edna O'Brien	My rating:
Mar 19, 2012 03:14pm
Elizabeth Baines liked Alan's review of The Birth Machine: " I won this! Will be reading shortly.. didn't get as much reading done as i thought over the holidays, but did start this - up to p30, and so far it's a strange but compelling combination of (descriptions of) childhood play and induced labour.. ..I... " Read more of this review »
Feb 08, 2012 03:05am · see review
Elizabeth Baines gave to: Postcards by Annie Proulx read in April, 2011	My rating:
Read my reading group discussion: http://elizabethbaines.blogspot.com/2...
Sep 20, 2011 09:45am · see review
Elizabeth Baines gave to: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy read in April, 2011	My rating:
Definitely stunning book, turning the Wild West tradition on its head. Some dispute in my reading group as to its morality: you can read the discussion here: http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blog...
Sep 19, 2011 10:16am · see review
Elizabeth Baines gave to: Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller read in May, 2011	My rating:
I loved this book when I first read it a few years ago but reading it again found that I hadn't remembered it as well as I thought - I'd really only remembered the basic concept and not the picaresque story which makes up most of the novel. So I'm ra...more
Sep 17, 2011 09:27am · see review
Elizabeth Baines gave to: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada read in July, 2011	My rating:
An amazing, if strangely written, book - florid, repetitive, naive in dialogue yet somehow truly excoriating. Based on the real-life case of an act of resistance under the Nazis by a middle-aged German couple, and providing a vivid portrait of the cu...more
Sep 14, 2011 11:31am · see review
Elizabeth Baines is currently reading: The Spare Room by Helen Garner	My rating:
Sep 14, 2011 11:24am

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