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SUMMARY:Literature Live: Beth Underdown and JR Thorp
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the latest in the Literature Live series\, presen
 ted by the Centre for New Writing.\n\nThis event will feature readings b
 y Beth Underdown and JR Thorp\; the authors will be in conversation with
  the Director of the Centre for New Writing\, Dr. Kaye Mitchell.\n\nList
 ed as one to watch in The Observer’s New Faces of Fiction 2017 feature\,
  Beth Underdown won the HWA Goldsboro Crown Debut Award for The Witchfin
 der’s Sister (2017)\; the novel was a Richard and Judy bestseller. Beth’
 s second novel\, The Key in the Lock was published by Viking in January 
 2022. A Sunday Times Historical Fiction pick\, The Key in the Lock has b
 een praised as “an intriguing\, elegantly constructed gothic mystery” (S
 unday Times) and “an ingenious page-turner” (The Times). Beth is a Lectu
 rer in Creative Writing in the Centre for New Writing.\n\nJR Thorp is a 
 writer and librettist whose first novel\, Learwife (2021) was one of Wat
 erstones’ best books of the year and is a longlisted title for the Walte
 r Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. She was an Observer Best Debut Nov
 elist for 2021\, and won a Markievicz Award to write her second novel. H
 er musical work has been commissioned by the Arts Council\, the Wellcome
  Trust\, BBC Music\, and St Paul’s Cathedral\, among others. She did her
  PhD in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. An Australian by
  birth\, she currently lives in Cork\, Ireland.\n\nEveryone is welcome\,
  and ticket prices include discounts at the Blackwell’s bookstall.\n\nPL
 EASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHONY B
 URGESS FOUNDATION.\n\nBeth Underdown image: TBC\n\nJR Thorp image: Trist
 an Hutchinson\n
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LOCATION:International Anthony Burgess Foundation\, 3 Cambridge Street\, 
 Manchester \, M1 5BY
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