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Nov 1, 2024 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
In November's Book Club Tessa Hadley, one of our most relatable writers of women, talks to Belinda Bamber about the influence of D. H. Lawrence and Henry James on her work, and how playfulness is vital to storytelling. C&TH Book Club: The Party by Tessa HadleyBelinda Bamber: You are acclaimed for writing about 'ordinary' people's lives: their loves, hopes, fears, betrayals, griefs, fear of mortality. Is that your focus?
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
Kate Weinberg, author of There's Nothing Wrong With Her talks to Belinda Bamber for the C&TH Book Club about illness, honesty and pathfinders. Author Interview: Kate Weinberg Belinda Bamber: There's Nothing Wrong With Her is a novel about Vita, a professional woman whose life-changing illness leads to an unexpected awakening. What inspired this story? Kate Weinberg: While I was stuck in bed with long Covid, I kept getting visitors.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
In July's award-winning poet Jen Hadfield talks to Belinda Bamber about how living in Shetland inspires her work. C&TH Book Club: Storm Pegs by Jen HadfieldBelinda Bamber: You were brought up in Cheshire, how did your move to Shetland come about? Jen Hadfield: My mum is Canadian and I think we grew up with this idea of big, open landscapes being a sort of spiritual home, a counter to South Manchester's suburb-scape.
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May 13, 2024 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
In this month's Book Club, Julia Armfield talks to Belinda Bamber about the apocalypse, queer writing and why water is her narrative medium. C&TH Book Club: Private Rites by Julia ArmfieldBelinda Bamber: Private Rites is set in a time of apocalyptic floods. The end of the world is nigh, yet three sisters, Isla, Irene and Agnes, have to organise the funeral of their tyrannical father and continue to navigate their day-to-day living, loving, working and squabbling.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
In March's , Carys Davies talks to Belinda Bamber about libraries, languages and lost souls. Interview: Carys Davies On Her New Novel, Clear Belinda Bamber: Clear is about an impoverished, married church minister, John Ferguson, who in 1843 sets out on a perilous mission to evict Ivar, the last inhabitant of a remote Scottish island. What was the seed of the story?
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
In February's Angie Kim talks to Belinda Bamber about moving from Korea to America as a child, becoming a novelist at 40, and creating a central character who has autism. C&TH Book Club: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Belinda Bamber: Happiness Falls is a novel about a close-knit Korean-American family whose lives in Virginia are overturned when the kids' father, Adam, goes missing. His 14-year-old son Eugene, who is non-verbal, becomes a suspect, and the story is narrated by his daughter, Mia.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
Belinda Bamber talks to Khashayar J Khabushani about Iran, fathers and forbidden love. Interview: Khashayar J KhabushaniThe title of your debut novel, I Will Greet the Sun Again, is taken from a poem by Forugh Farrokhzad. She is, in my eyes, the most important Iranian artist to ever live. Her work is a flaming torch for me that inspired the heart of the story, and K’s path to reclaiming his light. K’s violent father, Baba, nearly extinguishes his youthful brightness. Who are the good fathers?
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Charlie Colville |Belinda Bamber |Lucy Cleland |Ellie Smith
Have you heard of latte makeup? The trend is setting the internet abuzz this week, with its summery warm tones and golden-hour worthy results. ‘Think of it like an update to the 90s girl trend,’ explains Elanna Pecherle, makeup artist and founder of Pearl Beauty. ‘It’s born out of nostalgic nods to the 1990s supermodel look, with brown lipliner and a soft palette of browns and caramels.’ We ask Elanna to talk us through the trend, its rising popularity and how we can recreate latte makeup at home.
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May 15, 2023 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
In May’s Book Club, Catherine Lacey tells Belinda Bamber why she set her broken love story in a dystopian, last-century America. C&TH Book Club: BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine LaceyBelinda Bamber: You were one of Granta’s 2017 Best of Young American Novelists and The Biography of X has been hailed as your Big American Novel, set in a fictional dystopia. Did it feel like a BAN, or did you write from a more personal place?
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Belinda Bamber
In April’s Book Club, Keggie Carew, author of Beastly, tells Belinda Bamber about her heroes and villains in humanity’s ancient and extraordinary relationship with animals. More from the C&TH Book ClubBeastly by Keggie Carew – The C&TH Book ClubBelinda Bamber: Beastly covers 40,000 years of our relationship with animals, and its gestation started when you were sent ‘a photo of a boar, a candelabra and a girl’. It’s a very different book to Dadland, which won you the Costa 2016 Biography Award.
