Bedford Square: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme

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Synopsis

In recent years, some of the most acclaimed writers have taken part in Creative Writing programmes throughout Britain, from Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro to 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award winner Susan Fletcher. Now Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has established a brand new course at Royal Holloway, University of London. This compelling anthology showcases the writers from its inaugural year: smartly original and refreshingly varied, here are some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary writing.

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Published
16/01/2006

Publisher
John Murray Publishers Ltd

ISBN
9780719568220

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Read it here first -- one of the new writers in this anthology, all from Andrew Motion's creative writing class, could be the Next Big Thing. It's a rich selection ... I'd put a few bob on Tahmima Anam -- the extract from her novel-in-progress, A Golden Age, is a vivid and intriguing slice of Bangladesh in 1959. I also expect to hear more of Ben Gardiner, if the extract from They Said It Was Beautiful, but Jack Wasn't So Sure is anything to go by -- he is full of assurance, energy and genuine originality. -- The Times 20060201

About the author

Andrew Motion

Poet Laureate Andrew Motion ran the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia for eight years. He began teaching his new course at Royal Holloway in September 2004. (He is the author of several collections of poetry, biographies of Philip Larkin and Keats, and a novel, 'The Invention of Dr Cake'.)