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A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy is the author of novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her novel Everything You Need (Vintage) and a non-fiction book On Bullfighting (Yellow Jersey Press/ Anchor Books) were published in 1999. She was one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 1993.

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First Sentence: A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy

‘I have never seen anyone eat figs in the street and feel I am unsurprised.’

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Late in Life

A.L. Kennedy

‘Eating figs is different for girls.’

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Introducing Tatiana Salem Levy

A.L. Kennedy

Tatiana Salem Levy is introduced by previous double Best of Young British Novelist, A.L. Kennedy.

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Ordinary Light

Brad Feuerhelm & A.L. Kennedy

‘Why do I look? Why have I always looked? Because I have.’

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Home: reflections for Anthony Shadid

Various Contributors

Photo by Nada Bakri. This week, Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone – which tells...

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That Whole London Thing

A.L. Kennedy

I could be moving to London. Maybe. In theory. I don’t know. I am currently...

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The End?: Writers respond to John Barth

Various Contributors

Photo by Kate Gibb \ Big Active. Since the appearance of his first book The...

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Insomnia

A.L. Kennedy

Photo by Random Letters. Perhaps because I was born in the middle of the night...

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In Conversation | The Online Edition

Podcast: A.L. Kennedy

John Freeman & A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy, twice selected as one of Granta’s Best Young Novelists, talks to Editor John...

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Labyrinths

A.L. Kennedy

‘I was tempted to let the pages blow overboard and start again...But they have very stern laws about littering at sea.’

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Summer with my Grandmother (pt II)

A.L. Kennedy

This is the second part A.L. Kennedy’s touching portrait of time spent in her grandmother’s...

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Summer with my Grandmother (pt I)

A.L. Kennedy

Twice-Best Young British novelist A.L. Kennedy remembers days spent in her grandmother’s cabinet-making workshop, in...

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Story of My Life

A.L. Kennedy

‘Story of my life – maybe – going to the dentist.’

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God and Me

A.L. Kennedy

‘Faith: the greater it is, the more unsupported it must be’

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Room 536

A.L. Kennedy

‘He has longish, yellowish, curly hair, which was, perhaps, cute at some time in his youth, but has thinned now into a wispy embarrassment. I can almost picture him, each evening, praying to be struck bald overnight. God has not, so far, been merciful.’

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A Blow to the Head

A.L. Kennedy

‘I am looking for my dead grandfather in the British Library.’

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