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Amanda Craig

Author profile

born

South Africa

gender

female

website

http://www.amandacraig.com

genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Amanda Craig (born 1959) is a British novelist. Craig studied at Bedales School and Cambridge and works as a journalist. She is married with two children and lives in London.

Craig has so far published a cycle of six novels which deal with contemporary British society, often in a concise acerbic satirical manner. Her approach to writing fiction has been compared to that of Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens.[1] Her novel A Vicious Circle was originally contracted to be published by Hamish Hamilton, but was cancelled when its proof copy received a libel threat from David Sexton, a literary critic and former boyfriend of Craig's at Cambridge, fifteen years previously.[2] The novel was promptly bought by Fourth Estate and published three mont...more

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Books by Amanda Craig

Average rating: 3.52 · 424 ratings · 89 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Hearts and minds 3.86 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	In a Dark Wood: A Novel 3.39 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Love in Idleness 2.90 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Vicious Circle 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Foreign Bodies 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Private Place 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	In a Dark Wood. Amanda Craig 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	La prima goccia di pioggia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West, Amanda Craig (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1956 — 13 editions	My rating: