News
Recent journalism
Literary Review, February 2010: 'The Belle of Amherst?', review of Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon
Evening Standard, 7 January 2010: 'Sublime Gossip spiked with Sex', review of City Boy by Edmund White
Evening Standard, 12 November 2009, 'Tales of a Clan with Blood on their Hands', review of The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story by Mary-Kay Wilmers
Sunday Telegraph, 25 October 2009, review of Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
Evening Standard, 10 September 2009; 'The Banality of the Bourgeoisie', review of The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
Recent Interviews
1 October 2009 - Oxford Times
April 2009 - interview with Mark Thwaite at The Book Depository
Week of 20 April - podcast interview with Peter Cox on Litopia.com
Fiction
June 2008: Claire is runner-up in the V.S.Pritchett Memorial Prize for her short story, 'Bad Luck for a Bride'.
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The Warwick Review, December 2008: short story, 'Otherwise Engaged'.
BOOKS
Published on 4 March 2010 by Canongate Books
UK paperback edition of Jane's Fame
Published on 6 March 2010 by Henry Holt Books, New York
US hardback edition of Jane's Fame
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Australian edition of Jane's Fame was published on 4 May 2009
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June 2009 – Sylvia Townsend Warner's Summer Will Show
A new edition of Warner's 1936 novel, published by New York Review of Books Classics, with an introduction by Claire.
March 2008 – New Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner
The New Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner was published by Carcanet Press on 28 March 2008. This is a significantly larger collection, with over 90 previously uncollected and unpublished poems, a new introduction, expanded notes and a chronology.
'One of the most important books of poems to be published in 2008', Essays in Criticism
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Ali Smith's review of this book in the TLS, 3 January 2009: 'Sylvia Townsend Warner, ghost writer'
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20 March 2008: Woman's Hour. A discussion of the poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland. 10.00am, BBC Radio 4.
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Guardian Review, 29 March 2008: 'Lightning from Skies' – Sylvia Townsend Warner's chequered poetic career.
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