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Podcast: novelist Claire Fuller talks octopuses and the Memory of Animals

Podcast: novelist Claire Fuller talks octopuses and the Memory of Animals

The Costa Novel Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground has released a stunning new piece of speculative fiction, The Memory of Animals. She chats to writer and editor Antonia Charlesworth Stack, about their shared fascination with octopuses. Octopuses are having a moment. In scientific discovery and in literature. In this special Blackpool Social Club edition of Lancashire Libraries’ Reading Ramble podcast, Antonia Charlesworth Stack sits down to chat with Claire Fuller about her new novel, The Memory of Animals, and the unlikely themes it shares with her story, The Call of The Sea – part of the Lancashire Stories anthology. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NyaaUWquyf7IMuhsUAd0U?si=YaL8AdeTTT-4sZvpsxeTrQ…
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Blackpool to host Word Fest Literature Festival

Blackpool to host Word Fest Literature Festival

Blackpool is getting its very own literature festival this autumn in Word Fest, a weekend of literary events and spoken word where literary heavyweights and popular authors host events side by side with celebrity writers. Running between Friday 7th until Monday 10th October 2022, the festival takes the form of a series of ticketed events to hear authors talk about their love of writing and their books, answer questions and sign books for fans. Most ticket prices include a copy of the latest publication by the author. Hosted and held in the Winter Gardens and co-produced by Kirkham's independent coffee…
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