Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror, was described as « beautifully written . . . immersive . . . captivating » by the Guardian. As Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy, he created the flagship « Writing a Novel » six-month course in 2009 and since then has helped hundreds of writers find their voice.
10 Ebooks par Richard Skinner
Richard Skinner: Mirror
Erik Satie – composer, dandy, eccentric – is dead. Told to select one memory to take with him into the afterlife, he finds himself in limbo with a community of the deceased, looking back at his fifty …
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€11.60
Keith Douglas: Alamein to Zem Zem
'This is the only book from the Second World War comparable with the first-war narratives of Sassoon, Blunden or Graves… When the battle of El Alamein began, the poet Keith Douglas was in Cair …
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€11.56
Richard Skinner: Writing a Novel
Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel. Pulling together his years of experience as a n …
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€10.27
Richard Skinner: Red Dancer
When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an army captain twice her age. After a hasty wedding, they d …
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€9.04
Richard Skinner: Dub
From growing up in Trinidad in the late 1960s, Richard Skinner recalls the first time he was infected by those languid rhythms we call Dub. From there, he charts a compelling history of the genre; fr …
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€3.85
Richard Skinner: Ben Baxter Investigates the Haunted Vicarage and Other Mysteries
As Ben Baxter continues to write his diary, we find him faced with several more curious crimes and the odd mystery. He is helped as usual by his pal Johnny, his sister Katie and Chippy. Ben and Johnn …
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€4.50
Richard Skinner: Invocations
From earthworms to CD-ROMs, from starfish to blizzards, from electrons to garden forks, from doubt to a shout of laughter … This beautiful little book of invocations inspired by creatures, conditio …
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€6.42
Richard Skinner: Colliding with God
The subject matter of Richard Skinner’s witty and reflective poems starts with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden and concludes with the events of the first Easter, taki …
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€10.26
