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Salena Godden is one of Britain’s best loved poets and performers. She is also an activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist and is widely anthologised. She has published several volumes of poetry, the latest of which was Pessimism is for Lightweights,and a literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road. In November 2020 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mrs Death Misses Death is her debut novel.
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The Benefactors (2025)
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Muckle Flugga (2025)
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Pity (2024)
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