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Lucy Luck

@agent_luck

Literary Agent at C&W. Short and sweet.

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cwagency.co.uk
Joined May 2011
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this book changed me for reading it—exquisite literary fiction by @madeleine_watts set against the prickly beauty of the american southwest. it’s about love! art! how we survive in a burning world! weird motels and sand sculptures! proofs drop soon, shout if you’d like one 🌵
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One of Ireland's great authors, Roddy Doyle will be here this evening to talk all things books and his new novel, The Women Behind the Door. If you're in Galway and have no plans around 6pm today, why not join us - you can book a free ticket, here: kennys.ie/events/kennys/rodd…
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'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion' We spoke to @ColinBarrett82, author of Wild Houses, about his book’s small-town Irish setting, and the author who inspired him to write about the world he knew. #BookerPrize2024 thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
Colin Barrett interview: 'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion' | The Booker Prizes

Colin Barrett interview: 'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion' | The Booker Prizes

The author of Wild Houses, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about his book’s small-town Irish setting, and the author who inspired him to write about the world he knew

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Interviewed @ColinBarrett82 about his Booker longlisting (“You just don’t think that your book could possibly be on it") and being mentored by Colm Tóibín thetimes.com/article/8c5e08f…
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'A darkly comic account of frustration and misadventure in a small Irish town. A slow-burn study of character and fate that’s also an edge-of-your-seat thriller' - @TheBookerPrizes 2024 judges. Congratulations to @ColinBarrett82 for the Booker Prize 2024 longlisted WILD HOUSES!
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It was a delight to spend time with Big Sharpie™️ at @LRBbookshop yesterday, desecrating some pages in a convivial way — really looking forward to a conversation with @Such_Mayer about it next week. SEE YOU THERE AND WE CAN FINALLY AIR OUR GRIEVANCES FACE-TO-FACE?
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🌞🌞AUGUST BOOKSHOP EVENTS 🌞🌞 lrb.me/events 6 Aug: the brilliant Eley Williams (@GiantRatSumatra), author of ATTRIB. AND OTHER STORIES, discusses her new collection MODERATE TO POOR, OCCASIONALLY GOOD with So Mayer (@Such_Mayer) Book here: lrb.me/kn3
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MODERATE TO POOR, OCCASIONLLY GOOD is out today - congratulations @GiantRatSumatra! 🤍 A courtroom sketch artist portraits their lover. 💙 A crush marks the reality of a teenage body in flux. 🧡 An essayist annotates thoughts on Keats through internet-gleaned sex tips.
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Colin Walsh, author of KALA in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly on Thursday 18th July 2024 18:30 at Waterstones, London - Piccadilly @WaterstonesPicc Book tickets here waterstones.com/events/colin…
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IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🎉 Happy book birthday to #TheEdgeOfSolitude!! ❄️❄️❄️ Can’t wait to officially launch it at @Lighthousebks tonight 🥂 (Now go vote for a better future, and more support for the climate & the arts!) buythebook.online/the-edge-o…
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ALT Photo shows a copy of #TheEdgeOfSolitude lying on the grass, surrounded by petals.

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Against the backdrop of a town suffocating on its own secrets, three old friends reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives forever in our gripping and atmospheric Fiction Book of the Month, KALA by Colin Walsh: exyu.short.gy/zwdAc9 #WBOTM
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🌾 IT’S PUB DAY! I’m delighted to announce that my new book is now available. THE NEW BREADLINE, a memoir about global hunger and humanitarianism, draws on my 20+ years as an aid worker. Thank you to everyone who made this project happen.
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Our six-week Writing Short Stories course with @cynan1975 starts Thurs! Learn essential fiction-writing techniques to write and edit a complete short story. 📅 Enrol now: curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/co…
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The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, review: Every sentence is a work of art 🖋️ @Nick_Duerden trib.al/pEuwuRY
Kevin Barry's Wild West novel The Heart in Winter is a work of art

Kevin Barry's Wild West novel The Heart in Winter is a work of art

We're spoilt with fine Irish novelists - but Kevin Barry might just be the best

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Launched yesterday & sold out … so Mick had to do a mad dash to pick up more stock this morning of Kevin Barry’s new novel ‘The Heart in Winter’ for signing!! If you bought yesterday - understand why you couldn’t wait!!
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Set in the American West of the 1890s, Kevin Barry's THE HEART IN WINTER tracks the dangerously forbidden affair between a torrid young balladeer and the wife of a devout and powerful mine captain, pre-order the Signed Edition here: exyu.short.gy/19mGQ3
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In true Hodges Figgis fashion, our window dresser has put together a wonderful display to mark the release of Kevin Barry’s “The Heart in Winter”, available from today onwards!
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We're all set for Kevin Barry's arrival today. 750 Limited Editions ready for him to sign! – at Galway, Ireland
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A beautiful interview with @GarthGreenwell about his new novel SMALL RAIN (19Sept) in the latest ed. of @thebookseller. 'An exquisitely human novel which confronts death & meets it with poetry, art & love... An utter triumph of expression' - YES!🙏@KatieFr3
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In this week’s issue of @thebookseller I spoke to @GarthGreenwell about his exquisite novel Small Rain. I urge everyone to read this when it is published in September. It is a triumph
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"A man travelling alone in his morbid fifties does not talk to a girl in her teens without family or guardian in sight, especially not in this black romantic mood": a story by Kevin Barry in The New Yorker Monday.
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We also have a new scholarship! The Breakthrough Scholarship for Short Story Writers with Low Income will award one talented writer of limited financial means a free place on our Writing Short Stories – Advanced course. Find out more and apply: curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/co…
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