Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and a Caribbean father.
My Name is Leon, her debut novel, was an international bestseller and won Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2016. Her second novel,
The Trick to Time, followed in April 2018. She established the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship at Birkbeck University to help improve working-class representation in the arts. She lives in London.
13 Ebooks by Kit de Waal
Kit de Waal: Common People
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives …
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Kit de Waal: Die Zeit und was sie heilt
In einem englischen Küstenort hat Mona einen Laden für Künstlerpuppen. Immer wieder betreten stille Frauen ihr Geschäft. Sie kommen aus einem Kreis für Mütter totgeborener Kinder. Und Mona versucht, …
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Kit de Waal: Mein Name ist Leon
Leon ist neun und ziemlich dunkelhäutig, sein Halbbruder Jake dagegen ganz blond und erst sechs Monate alt. Als ihre Mutter Sandra mal wieder richtig Pech mit einem Kerl hat, bleibt sie einfach im Be …
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Kit de Waal: Becoming Dinah
"A gripping, heart-wrenching coming-of-age story" – Guardian In her first YA novel, Costa-shortlisted Kit de Waal responds to classic Moby Dick by tearing the power away from obsessive Capt …
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Kit de Waal: Six Foot Six
It’s an exciting day for Timothy Flowers. It’s the third of November, and it’s Friday, and it’s his twenty-first birthday. When Timothy walks to his usual street corner to see his favourite special b …
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Kit de Waal: My Name Is Leon
A TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVEL PRIZE Soon to be a major BBC film starring Sir Lenny Henry, Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams and Christopher Eccleston. It’s …
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Kit de Waal: Trick to Time
‘There’s a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer . . .’Some moments you want to last forever. Some moments shape a life. For Mona, it’s …
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Kit de Waal: Supporting Cast
***From the acclaimed author of My Name is Leon***’Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly’ Stylist_______________________________________________As she walks out of her mar …
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A.S. Byatt & Philippa Gregory: The Women Writers Handbook 2020
A revised edition of the publisher’s inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, storie …
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Martyn Bedford & Kate Clanchy: Protest
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 i …
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Balvinder Banga & Alan Beard: Book of Birmingham
Few cities have undergone such a radical transformation over the last few decades as Birmingham. Culturally and architecturally, it has been in a state of perpetual flux and regeneration, with new co …
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Kit de Waal: Without Warning and Only Sometimes
‘Vivid and compelling and so moving… Kit’s depiction of her parents’ dynamic is both painful and comforting to read’ Marian Keyes AS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4From the award-winning author of MY NAME …
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Kit de Waal: Without Warning and Only Sometimes
Kit de Waal and her brother and sisters had a hard childhood in the West Midlands. Her Irish mother didn’t feed them, didn’t believe in Christmas or birthdays, and thought the world would end in 1975 …
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