Miranda France

This provocative cornucopia of fiction and non-fiction reminds us why we read. Exploring the complexities of the human condition, UEA’s 2024 Prose Fiction MA graduates make fresh and astonishing territory of the everyday, be it the back of a truck or the inside of a cocoon. Roaming present-day Sri Lanka, Nigeria, East Anglia, 1900s New York and AI futures, these perceptive narratives offer bold, urgent and often daring insights into what it means to be alive today. The submissions of the Biography and Creative Non-Fiction MA cohort are equally electrifying. From family history, memoir and psychogeography to historical investigations, essays and non-fiction novels, the eighteen non-fiction pieces in this collection pulsate with emotion, intrigue and mind-bending narratives. With forewords by Priscilla Morris and Miranda France, and introductions by Julianne Pachico and Ian Thomson, this anthology showcases some of the finest writing talent emerging today.

Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside. A highly original book about writing, writers and what drives us to want to put lives into words.

Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside. A highly original book about writing, writers and what drives us to want to put lives into words.

To the casual outsider, Hill Farm is a rural idyll and the perfect retreat from urban life. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother.

A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer.When in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid, the post-dictatorship ebullience was at its height. Pornography and soft drugs were legalised alongside more basic freedoms, such as divorce, party-affiliation and kissing in the street. In 1998 she returned to make a journey through the great cities and towns of central Spain - Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca and others. With the new prosperity, much has changed. But much has also endured, as she learns from the people she meets, who include a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers and a Castilian separatist. She also discovers that Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE' published in 1605 and the most translated book after the Bible - is a work of genius which still helps to explain the Spanish character: today's Spaniards still suffer from Don Quixote's delusions, and are as stubborn, inflexible and unrealistic as they have always been.

A funny and poignant account of life in Buenos Aires, by a young prize-winning writer.