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Amanda Craig

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Amanda Craig is a British novelist. Craig studied at Bedales School and Cambridge and works as a journalist. She is married with two children and lives in London.

Craig has so far published a cycle of six novels which deal with contemporary British society, often in a concise acerbic satirical manner. Her approach to writing fiction has been compared to that of Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens.[1] Her novel A Vicious Circle was originally contracted to be published by Hamish Hamilton, but was cancelled when its proof copy received a libel threat from David Sexton, a literary critic and former boyfriend of Craig's at Cambridge, fifteen years previously.[2] The novel was promptly bought by Fourth Estate and published three months later. Although each novel can be read separately, they are linked to each other by common characters and themes, thus constituting a novel sequence. Usually, Craig takes a minor character and makes him or her the protagonist of her next work.

Craig is particularly interested in children's fiction, and was one of the first critics to praise JK Rowling and Philip Pullman in The New Statesman. She is currently the children's critic for The Times.

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Amanda Craig

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Books from Amanda Craig

The Flight of the Falcon

The Other Side of You

A Vicious Circle

A Private Place

Hearts and Minds

The Lie of the Land

The Golden Rule

Love in Idleness

The Small Business Crisis: Why Your Small Business Is Failing, and How to Change Course

Eine gute Schule.

The Golden Rule

Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods

The Three Graces

Great Escapes

Foreign Bodies

In a Dark Wood