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Ajay Close

@AjayClose

Reformed journalist. Author of 7 novels, including What Doesn't Kill Us, What We Did in the Dark, The Daughter of Lady Macbeth, A Petrol Scented Spring & Trust.

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Announcing the #SaltireBookAwards Fiction Shortlist 2024, featuring five titles. Learn more about them and what the judges said on our website at saltiresociety.org.uk 🔗 Congratulations to authors on the Fiction shortlist: #LiteraryAwards #booktok #TheSaltireSociety

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delighted to be longlisted for Scottish fiction book of the year

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We're thrilled to see @AjayClose on the @SaltireBook Awards Fiction Longlist for What Doesn't Kill Us 🎉 Congratulations to everyone on the longlist!

Discover the #SaltireBookAwards Fiction Longlist 2024. There are ten titles on the list, and you can learn more about these and all this year's longlists at bit.ly/SBAll24🔗Congratulations to authors on the Fiction longlist: #LiteraryAwards #booktok #TheSaltireSociety

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Looking forward to this on Saturday September 14th in Trinity Church, Stirling. Sharing a platform with Tove Alsterdal, Araminta Hall and our fab chair Zoe Venditozzi

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Nervously waiting in the lovely Green Room at the #pbf2024 with the fabulous women @ajayclose and @writerkcampbell

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Paisley pals - I'm at the town hall, 10.30am, a week today. See you there? #PBF24 #ImagineDifferent paisleybookfest.com/programme/writ…


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As this year's #WomensHistoryMonth draws to a close, the audiobook of #WhatDoesntKillUs by @AjayClose is now available. Listen to a sample here: youtu.be/DWoMHsX9yYY?fe…


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Leeds Feminist book launch: “What Doesn’t Kill Us” tells the story of Reclaim the Night & the Women’s Movement in 1970s Leeds, showing what’s changed, & what hasn’t. Author Ajay Close researched her new novel in the city. Wed 13 Mar 6.30-7.30 Leeds Central Library Rm 700 PAYF


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Ajay will be in conversation with Diana Muir, who was a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post in 1978. Copies of the book will be available on the night.


lovely review from the always perceptive Susan Mansfield @wordsmansfield in today's @scotonsunday

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Signing books at the excellent @FurtherFrom - plenty of the madding crowd on Linlithgow High Street today

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Congratulations Ajay - and what a fine novel this is. So full of life and authenticity and humour.


thanks to Jen Bowden for hosting me on her excellent Northern Voices podcast, in which I explain why I talk like a softy southerner. soundcloud.com/northern_voice…


confessions of a (sort of) crime writer who can't stand the sight of blood crimetime.co.uk/ajay-close-on-…


not sure I'm noir - more of a dark charcoal - but looking forward to this. @GraniteNoirFest aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/grani…


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This week at #STUC22 - Unite delegates brought #JobsPayConditions to the heart of the Trade Union movement. @MaryAlexander_ gives the Unite recap incl: ⚕️The National Care Service 🚖'Get Me Home Safely' 💰Fair Work & Local Government Pay 💪🏽Indian Farmers & big collective action


wonderful piece by Vicky Allan about the wonderful Catherine Carswell (who interviewed, ahem, me)

I'm pre-celebrating #IWD with this article I did on the amazing Catherine Carswell and how her escape from a bad marriage made history. She is definitely someone who knew how to #ChooseToChallenge heraldscotland.com/news/19142035.…



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