The Forger's Ink Katherine Pierpoint

The Forger's Ink Katherine PierpointIts the 1970s, and a mysterious woman has a cache of letters to sell. They claim to tell the story of the death of Fanny Imlay, half sister of Mary Shelley and daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft. Did Fanny really commit suicide in an inn in Swansea in 1816, as historians thought? The letters instead suggest a faked death and an escape from Fannys fraught family life. It could have been an independence of which Fannys mother would have been proud. But the

As clear and relentless as the cold air

The title of this book comes from the African proverb

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A good many of these essays began as papers for oral delivery

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and lives in New York City

keeping a weather eye out for telling detail

Lakshmi Ajay

including the Civil Rights movement in the US and the continuing fight against racism in the US and Britain

Tishani Doshi

Writers who received remote mentoring during the pandemic have captured the surreal