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Claire’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Claire’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Swimming Lessons
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2017
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Bitter Orange
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2018
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Unsettled Ground
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2021
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38 editions
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Our Endless Numbered Days
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2015
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The Memory of Animals
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2023
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13 editions
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Hunger and Thirst
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2026
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Unquiet Guests
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2025
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After the Fall - Tales of the Apocalypse
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Bard: The Short Story Collection
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A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed: 2016 National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology (National Flash Fiction Day Anthologies Book 5)
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Unquiet Guests Wins Shirley Jackson Award
ScreenshotI’m delighted that Unquiet Guests, an anthology of haunted house short stories, and in which I have a story, has just won a Shirley Jackson award for Best Anthology.
My story, A Land Beneath, takes two minor characters from my novel, Hunger and Thirst and imagines them about thirty five years later when they are 39 and visiting their estranged father’s house after he has just died. T
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A darkly funny novel of dangerous choices, and a brilliant study of human nature. When waster, Georges, who still lives with his parents, dies unexpectedly in his bed after a drunken night out, his mother, Charlotte convinces her husband Erik to harve ...more |
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“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
― Swimming Lessons
― Swimming Lessons
“My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.”
― Our Endless Numbered Days
― Our Endless Numbered Days
“Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we're going to live by the sun and the seasons.' He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.'Our days will be endless.”
― Our Endless Numbered Days
― Our Endless Numbered Days
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Claire, I was so happy to hear you'd won the 2021 Costa Novel Award for Unsettled Ground!! WOW - congratulations! What a huge honour, and so very well-deserved! You must be very happy; I'm sure all your friends and fans are very happy for you, too. Way to go!!📘🥇📚🍾👑🎈🎉🎊🎆🙌🥳
hi, Claire! thanks for accepting my friend request! you're cool!