A Q& A with Courtney Collins
The Burial is the debut novel of Courtney Collins. It has been optioned for a feature film by Pure Pictures. Courtney grew up in the Hunter Valley in NSW in Australia and now lives on the Goulburn River in regional Victoria. She is also a pen-kleptomaniac. See more about the book below, or listen to Courtney speak here
How long did it take you to write the novel?
I was writing it on and off for about seven...
Julie Burchill pulls no punches in her journalism, and the same is true of her novel Ambition. Never one to shirk from controversary, Julie is an outspoken woman of strong opinions and has been blessed by the gift, not often bestowed on novelists, of not giving a damn what people think about her. She was born in Bristol in 1959 and has been a journalist since the age of 17, starting out in the NME - New Musical Express, where she met her first husband, Tony Parsons. Now 53 years old, she writes for the Guardian and has penned more than a dozen books,. The TV adaptation of one of them, Sugar Rush, aimed at teenagers, won an International Emmy. Her self-confessed hobbies include...
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Your novel, The Potter’s Hand, tells the story of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the Wedgwood pottery firm in the 18th century. You will be presenting a show about ...
How Josiah Wedgwood became Britain’s most famous potter:
A.N. Wilson, author of the acclaimed novel, The Potter’s Hand, is presenting BBC2’s ‘The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood’ on Friday 19 April at 9pm. But how did Josiah Wedgwood turn himself from ordinary potter to one of the wealthiest men in Britain?
Josiah Wedgwood was born in Stoke in 1730, one of a long line of potters. He was apprenticed at a young age to his...
In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and falls for a Cherokee woman who will come to play a crucial role in Josiah's late, great creation: the Portland Vase. As the family fortune is made, and Josiah's entrepreneurial brilliance creates an empire that will endure for generations, it is his daughter Sukey, future mother of Charles Darwin, who bears clear-eyed witness.
A novel of epic scope,...
A historical novel about the Wedgwood family, The Potter’s Hand by A.N. Wilson is published in paperback by Atlantic on 4 June 2013.
Set in 18th-century England, it tells the story of the founder of the Wedgwood Pottery firm, Josiah Wedgwood.
In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great....
A. N. Wilson - Author Page
A.N. Wilson’s much-praised historical novel, The Potter’s Hand, is now out in paperback by Atlantic Books.
The Potter’s Hand is a gorgeously crafted, epic novel set in 18th-century England, and it tells the story of one of Britain’s most famous families: the Wedgwoods of Stoke-on-Trent. A.N. Wilson drew on his personal knowledge of the Wedgwoods...
Queen's University of Belfast, University of Brighton, and Middlesex University, London and has taught literature and writing at the University of Adelaide, Queen's...
Tim Leach, author of The Last King of Lydia, published on 1 April by Atlantic Books, writes here on The Phony War - the moment when it the phone finally rings:
So, at last, it has happened. The ambition of every aspiring writer. You have a book deal.
Even if you’ve tried to be sensible, you’ve dreamed of this moment for almost as long as you’ve been writing. The moment...
Serialised in the Mail on Sunday (click here to read), Anyone Who Had a Heart and a credit card would race out and buy this long awaited autobiography from Burt Bacharach. The artist has had seventy Top Forty hits, won three Academy Awards, eight Grammys and an Emmy. He was recently given the prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, an award previously won by Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney - long overdue according to some of us....
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Two German debut novelists from Atlantic, Katharina Hagena and Susann Pásztor, will be appearing at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 23 March 2013. The English translation of Hagena’s novel The Taste of Apple Seeds was published to great...
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