Sebastian Shakespeare
Sebastian Shakespeare Talks to Susanna Jones
YOUR FIRST NOVEL ‘The Earthquake Bird’ won the 2001 C W A John Creasey Memorial Dagger for best first crime novel, a Betty Bask Award and the prestigious Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for authors under thirty-five. Were you surprised by the recognition you received?
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James Hogg—best known today for his amazing novel The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, which “voluptuously tormented” André Gide—died #OTD, 21 Nov, 1835.
In this @Lit_Review article, Alan Taylor visits Hogg’s birthplace in the Borders
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-ettrick-shepherd