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Candia McWilliam


(b.1955)

Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1955 and educated at Girton College, Cambridge. She won a Vogue writing competition in 1971 and worked for the magazine between 1976 and 1979.

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   A Case of Knives (1987)
   A Little Stranger (1989)
   Debatable Land (1994)
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Collections
   Ten (1996) (with others)
   Wait Till I Tell You (1997)
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Anthologies edited
   Shorts II (1999)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Candia McWilliam recommends
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Pet (2023)
Catherine Chidgey
"Catherine Chidgey in Pet mobilises the misgivings shared by all children who love and lose: the fear of being odd, the longing to be special, the horror of being supplanted. This is a novel hard not to swallow [entirely] in one go, by when the reader will be full of hooks and wary as an old pike."
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Forspoken (1998)
Ajay Close
"Ajay Close...is a natural writer with a rare gift. Glasgow has a magnificent addition to its pantheon of fine writers."
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Storm in the Citadel (1989)
Kate Saunders
"Kate Saunders has a very funny line on the farce of sex."

Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (1988) : A Case of Knives
Guardian Fiction Prize Best Novel winner (1994) : Debatable Land


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