Elizabeth Baines

How to be a writer without ending up sozzled, behind bars or insane

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Reading group: The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt

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Margeret's suggestion, this was a book that some of us (including me) absolutely loved without qualification. Told in the utterly engagi...
Thursday, October 08, 2026

Frankenstein and me: new readings of The Birth Machine

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In the few years after The Birth Machine first came out (from The Women's Press), there was quite a bit of scholarly interest in it, an...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

A Small Good Thing: Podcast interview with Andrea Marzocchi

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As I have mentioned, at the beginning of June I went to Arras in northern France to deliver a keynote lecture at the conference of The Europ...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Cover and publication date for The Mountain and Other Stories

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  Here's the now confirmed cover for the forthcoming book. I chose it out of three options I was given, as I love the little figure seem...
Monday, September 07, 2026

Patient waits and fallow periods

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Well, it's a good while (as ChatGpt has noted!) since I announced on my website that my next book, The Mountain and Other Stories , is t...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Reading group: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

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This autobiographical novel, the author’s last, published in 1980 when he was seventy-two, revisits the subject of his first, that of the de...
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Reading group: Soldier, Sailor by Claire Kilroy

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This book (Doug’s suggestion), an interior address by a young mother (the Soldier of the title) to her first baby (Sailor), portrays the phy...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Annabel Gaskell reviews Five Different Stories

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A lovely review from Annabel Gaskell of Five Different Stories About One Thing. She talks about its relationship to Astral Travel (which s...
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