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Rachel Seiffert

Born in Oxford in 1971, Rachel Seiffert divides her time between teaching and writing. Her first novel, The Dark Room, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize and she has also received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and an Internation PEN award for her work.

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FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Rachel Seiffert on Naomi Alderman

Rachel Seiffert

We continue an online series of former Best of Young British Novelists introducing writers from...

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Hands Across the Water

Rachel Seiffert

I Graham was eighteen and rubbish at talking to females. He looked like a grown...

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Fiction | The Online Edition

Rachel Seiffert on Vanessa Barbara

Rachel Seiffert & Vanessa Barbara

GRANTA 121: BEST OF YOUNG BRAZILIAN NOVELISTS Introduced by previous Best of Young Novelists Vanessa...

In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Rachel Seiffert: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 37

Yuka Igarashi & Rachel Seiffert

Rachel Seiffert reads her work and talks to Granta about writing silences, the inescapability of history, the Troubles and learning to love her characters.

FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Hands Across the Water

Rachel Seiffert

They were late finishing, but the barman had already called the lock-in. Everyone stayed. It...

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Field Study

Rachel Seiffert

‘The bushes grow dense across the top of the drop, but Martin can just see through the leaves: young mother and son, swimming in the pool hollowed out by the waterfall.’

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