The Literary Obsessive
Eleanor Anstruther, Elissa Altman, Simon K Jones, Kimberly Warner, Vicki Lesley, Bridget Young, Eve Chase, Louise Fein, Geraint AndersonPeople, books, me; The Literary Obsessive charts that which catches my eye.
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Hello Frightened Child
The Obsessive Diary
It’s the sudden rescue, this catapult into fame. The imagined joy of overnight success, and then she published this piece and everything changed - a childhood craving masquerading as adult happening.
Double Spiral
I can’t read anything since.
My eye slips over other people’s words like butter, as if they are coated, I cannot stick.
It is a double spiral: no matter where you start, as long as you circle to the same place it will make sense. I unde...
Vicki & Lesley & Eleanor Anstruther - FALLOUT
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I have noticed
The Salon, by Sara Nunan
I have noticed.
I’ve noticed how I miss the morning chats, coffee in bed together, not talking about you but talking about them, our guests, the dramas and scandals and characters. The deconstructing and unpacking...
Goleen Heights
Glasgow airport alive with Scottish lads off to the game in Boston. I’m assuming it’s Boston. I’m assuming it’s football. I’m not really keeping an eye on these things. Pints and short haircuts, dads with sons nervous to be with the big man...
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A PERFECT EXPLANATION (Salt Books) A MEMOIR IN 65 POSTCARDS & THE RECOVERY DIARIES (Troubador) IN JUDGEMENT OF OTHERS (Troubador) FALLOUT (Empress Editions) - rep'd by Jenny Savill ANA
Elissa Altman is the award-winning author of PERMISSION: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create (GODINE), and memoirs Motherland, Treyf, and Poor Man's Feast. Her new book, WHERE YOU USED TO BE, is forthcoming from Godine.
Writing and publishing serial fiction for over 10 years. Helping people write more. I wrote a weekly scifi/fantasy/crime serial here for over 4 years. Comms Manager at Creative PEC. European. Based in Norwich.
Founder and director of Unfixed—a multi-media company that explores how adversity can broaden our definition of what it means to live a “good life.”
Director of 'The Atom: A Love Affair' (Netflix/Disney+). Host of 'The Film Thread' film club. Casting my documentary filmmaker's curious eye on life, work & films. Autism advocate & parent, living by the seaside & trying not to spill my coffee☕️
When your child is behind bars, you better be a tough mother. I write what others won’t— because silence protects the system, not the people.
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Thread, The Midnight Hour, The Glass House and other novels. Garden lover. Old house botherer. Biscuit crumbs in the keyboard.
Renegade stockbroker, author of Cityboy, possible psychopath. Next book 'How to Con Friends and Manipulate People' out 2 July 2026
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