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Carol Birch


UK flag (b.1951)

Carol Birch was born in 1951 in Manchester and went to Keele University. She has lived in London, southwest Ireland and now Lancaster. For her first novel, LIFE IN THE PALACE, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year. In 1991 she won the prestigious Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with THE FOG LINE.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Horror, Historical
 
Novels
   Life in the Palace (1988)
   The Fog Line (1989)
   The Unmaking (1992)
   Songs of the West (1994)
   Little Sister (1998)
   Come Back, Paddy Riley (1999)
   Turn Again Home (2003)
   In a Certain Light (2004)
   The Naming of Eliza Quinn (2005)
   Scapegallows (2007)
   Jamrach's Menagerie (2011)
   Orphans of the Carnival (2016)
   Cold Boy's Wood (2021)
   Shadow Girls (2022)
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What We Did in the Dark (2020)
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The Cardinal's Man (2017)
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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2011) : Jamrach's Menagerie
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2011) : Jamrach's Menagerie


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