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Alison MacLeod


Canada (b.1964)

Alison MacLeod is a novelist, short story writer and essayist. She is the author of two novels, The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels, and her next novel, Unexploded, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in 2013. She is also the author of Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction, and is currently completing her second short story collection.

MacLeod's stories have been widely published and broadcast on the BBC, and she was awarded the Society of Authors' Prize for short fiction in 2008. She was also shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award (for The Heart of Denis Noble) in 2011 and longlisted for the 2012 International Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester.
 
 
Novels
   The Changeling (1996)
   The Wave Theory of Angels (2005)
   Unexploded (2013)
   Tenderness (2021)
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Collections
   Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction (2007)
   All the Beloved Ghosts (2017)
   These Our Monsters (2019) (with others)
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Alison MacLeod recommends
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Ivy & Abe (2018)
Elizabeth Enfield
"Beautiful, uplifting and wise. I surfaced from the last page, feeling as comforted as I was moved."
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Folk (2018)
Zoe Gilbert
"An utterly tantalising new voice. With Folk, Gilbert casts a powerful spell, creating a world on the page that feels as old as the hills and yet exquisitely alive ... To read Folk is to find oneself rapt."
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The Hidden Legacy (2016)
G J Minett
"Cool and compelling."

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Anthologies containing stories by Alison MacLeod
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Best British Short Stories 2018 (2018)
(Best British Short Stories)
edited by
Nicholas Royle
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Love (2012)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop
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The Best British Short Stories 2012 (2012)
(Best British Short Stories)
edited by
Nicholas Royle

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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2013) : Unexploded


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