Kate Clanchy

Humour à la David Lodge, personnages de comédie shakespearienne, dialogues ciselés : tout est réuni pour faire de ce roman d'initiation un pur moment de plaisir." Géant de la littérature recherche jeune homme pour pousser sa chaise à roues. Logé,... Lire la suite

Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this... Lire la suite

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award The 'English' of this novel are a particular kind of family. Their ailing patriarch is Phillip Prys, the once-famous writer unexpectedly eclipsed first by voguish Salman Rushdie, and second by a massive... Lire la suite

' An absolutely wonderful book' - Deborah Moggach In a London street at the turn of the twenty-first century, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered. Antigona is a refugee... Lire la suite

" Géant de la littérature recherche jeune homme pour pousser sa chaise à roues. Logé, nourri, chambre individuelle à Hampstead. "

Quitter l'Écosse pour la très chic Londres et assister... Lire la suite

I text you how much it hurts not to see you. Here are poems about love, loss, mothers, fathers, God, rain and growing up. About all the things that poems are always about, in fact, with one crucial difference. Instead of being remembered from an... Lire la suite

Ocho destacados escritores contemporáneos reinterpretan las clásicas historias de fantasmas en esta inquietante colección de relatos ambientados en las localizaciones más misteriosas de las islas británicas. Inglaterra es por excelencia la tierra de... Lire la suite

Do you want to write a poem? This book will show you 'how to grow your own poem'… Kate Clanchy has been teaching people to write poetry for more than twenty years. Some were old, some were young; some were fluent English speakers, some were not.... Lire la suite

With a new afterword. 'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' - Philip Pullman Kate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent... Lire la suite

'Literary hand grenades, raising difficult questions about the world in which we live' - Guardian In the sixteen stories of The Not-Dead and The Saved, Kate Clanchy turns her clear gaze and remarkable honesty on what it means to be a mother or a... Lire la suite