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Susan Swingler on Midweek with Libby Purves
Susan Swingler joined British Museum curator Dr Daniel Antoine, translator and editor Brendan King and artist Hetain Patel on Midweek with Libby Purves. The group discussed everything from mummies, history and identity to art, expression and loss. Libby Purves presented some poignant questions to Sue Swingler about her book and the process of resolving a…
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House of Fiction a “moving and captivating memoir”
A short but very nice review of the UK edition of House of Fiction from Glasgow’s Sunday Herald on Sunday, 3rd May 2014: Perhaps fiction writers are best placed to create fictions out of their own worlds, but as Susan Swingler’s moving and captivating memoir shows, the damage wreaked can be huge. When her father,…
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House of Fiction: Clare Calvet’s Book of the Week
House of Fiction was chosen as Clare Calvet’s Book of the Week on ABC Radio during the Sydney Writer’s Festival. Here’s an extract from Clare’s review and you can read the full text on the ABC website. – Susan Swingler is an English archivist, researcher and photographer. ‘The House of Fiction’ is her first book. As the…
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