Anna Richards

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Anna Richards was born in Essex and currently lives in London. Little Gods, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, is her first novel 

Friday 1st Apr 2011: The Laugharne Festival

Anna Richards, Glyn Maxwell, Carol Ann Duffy, Jon Ronson, Paul Farley, Tristan Hughes, Roland Rivron will all be at this year’s Laugharne Festival, which runs from 15 April - 17 April.

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Thursday 10th Mar 2011: Anna Richards chosen as ‘brightest new talent’ by BBC

To highlight the brightest new talent in British literary fiction, The BBC’s The Culture Show formed a panel chaired by professor of English John Mullan to examine the debut novels of writers published in the last two years and to identify the most important new voices in British literary fiction right now. 

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Jules
Jules commented
Friday 11th Mar 2011 01:40
I loved this book. It took me a few pages to acclimatise to the style but I was soon wrapped up in it. There is something magical or surreal about the storytelling and the language, but the writing also has an earthy quality, a sort of pragmatism that grounds it in the real world. The book was full of expressions and images that I've never heard before - fantastically imaginative stuff. A writer with this much pyrotechnic enthusiasm could easily distract from the story, but that never happened. The strength of feeling I had for Jean, and even some of the less likeable characters, pulled me through the unusual language of the book so that I hardly noticed after a while. It worked its magic subconsciously somehow, and it made me think hard about my own attitudes to other people. Not a lot of books have done that. This is a story I will read again, probably quite soon. I keep remembering passages that were just beautiful.
Mike Grady

Little Gods discount

Posted By Mike Grady on Thursday 13th May 2010
 

You can now buy Little Gods at 35% off for a limited time only.

You can take advantage of this offer here by simply adding the book to your basket.

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Amy Lines

An extract from Little Gods

Posted By Amy Lines on Thursday 13th May 2010
 

Jean would teach him something about the responsibility of size.

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Anna Richards

Writer's Room

Posted By Anna Richards on Tuesday 7th Apr 2009
 

I have to admit to a slight obsession with the Writer's Rooms feature in the SaturdayGuardian. The aspiring writer grabs at any information about the craft to use as a blueprint and from this series of photographs I have deduced a North London attic with a churchyard view is as vital as ink. (More so, if you write exclusively on a laptop.)

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