Elizabeth Baines

Last autumn I wrote here about a new story exploring the question of gender which was prompted by my reading on embryology and intersex. Th...

Warning: Plot spoil. This is a novel of suspense (though we had some discussion about the nature of that suspense), but it's not possibl...

Well, here's the cover for my novel, Astral Travel, due out early next year. It's designed by Chris Hamilton-Emery and I absolute...

The Edge Hill Prize shortlist has been announced, and novelist Tessa Hadley (last year's winner), journalist and Galley Beggar publisher...

When people arrived for the meeting to discuss this book, they confronted Jenny, who had suggested it, by telling her that she had some ex...

My author copy of Best British Stories has arrived! Well, it arrived a few days ago, but I've been so run off my feet that I haven...

Today Best British Stories 2019, which includes my story 'Kiss' ( f irst published on MIR online in December), has arrived from...

Warning: plot spoil. We all loved Richard Yates's first novel Revolutionary Road, which we read not long after this American writer...

The writing life is good for me at the moment. My big news is that next year the wonderfully dynamic Salt will publish a new novel, which...

Once again I'm afraid it's a while since we had this discussion, and a lot has happened to me in the meantime (both on a day-to-da...

This will be a short report, as there was a unanimously positive verdict from our group (no argument to report), and it's a fairly light...

Due to my second stinking cold of the winter, I was absent when this book was discussed by our group, which I was sorry to be, since I ver...

I mentioned in my post of January 8th that I was about to write a story that, unlike others I've written recently, wouldn't touch o...

My story 'Bitter, Horned' can now be read on Litro Online . The picture (credit Sandrine Rouja) shows Creeping Wood Sorrel, the ...

John suggested this 1990 novel which opens as 'once-powerful' ex-IRA commander Moran is declining towards death, and his three adult...

I'm delighted to say that another of my stories has been accepted by the excellent  Confingo Magazine . It's yet another of the stor...

The New Year is going well: yesterday I was delighted to hear that a new story, 'Bitter, Horned', will be published on Litro Online ...

Happy New Year! I have started the new year on a bit of a high, as my story 'Kiss' which early last year was longlisted in the Sho...

Jenny's suggestion, this very short novel has been a runaway hit in its author's native Japan, and in translation worldwide. It...

I'm very pleased to say that my story, 'Kiss', which was longlisted in the Short Fiction Journal Prize in the Spring, has be...