Look North: The Life and Times of Belfast writer Mary Beckett
One of the weekend’s Look North! The North Belfast Festival events assembled a panel of authors to discuss the overlooked Belfast writer Mary Beckett. Lucy Caldwell was joined by Jan Carson and Riley Johnson to discuss the work and impact of one of Ireland’s finest writers, an award-winning author who captured the voice of ordinary women at the time. And ...
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Lucy Caldwell joins Chris Power and others to explore the writing of Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death ...
“These Days” longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has announced its 2023 longlist. Twelve novels are in contention for the £25,000 prize, with settings spanning the globe and the centuries: from ancient Tahiti to Australia and Tasmania at the dawn of colonisation; from seventeenth-century Massachusetts to the 19th century literary salons of Europe; from the shores of Suffolk to the quiet ...
How EM Forster inspired Lucy to finish her story
A writing life’s long afterglow… Lucy Caldwell, the latest winner of a prize funded by the royalties of the novel Maurice, reflects on conquering shame. A year before he died, EM Forster sent a parcel to Christopher Isherwood containing the manuscript of his novel, Maurice. The first draft of the novel, a story of homosexual love, had been completed almost ...