BIG NEWS: So honoured and so excited to see Mrs Death Misses Death win The Indie Book Awards Fiction award - Thank you to all book sellers and book lovers who voted for MDMD. Huge congratulations to all other shortlisted authors and their stunning books. Fiction shortlist was phenomenal, so much respect for all authors and their beautiful books.
BIGlove and thanks to all the indies that supported this book from the start. Thanks to Books Are My Bag and amazing C
anongate Books and my agent Crystal Mahey-Morgan at OWN IT! and editor Hannah Knowles - This was the best birthday present. Sincerely, thank you! 🧡📚
Summer gigs and festivals 2022
July 9: Also Festival, Warwick
July 21-24: Tae Sup A'Fifer Tour, Scotland
Gruff Rhys, Salena Godden, Brìghde Chaimbeul, James Yorskston
July 21: Byre Theatre, St Andrews Tickets
July 22: Mareel, Shetland Tickets
July 23: Eden Court, Inverness Tickets
July 24: Eastgate, Peebles Tickets
August 11: Fervour Festival, Elephant & Castle, London
OUT NOW: AUTHORS' MATTERS PODCAST
"Being optimistic is a revolutionary act"
Speaking to award winning author she tells how she got started in the DIY scene of the 1990s, rejecting the starving poet cliché,
and the secret to her productivity. Swapping poems for beer and cigarettes, Salena shares her extremely cool writing roots with us on Authors' Matters
and doesn't disappoint!
BBC RADIO 4 - A GOOD READ
Hosted by Harriett Gilbert
Fellow guest is author and illustrator Rob Biddulph
Following my recent RSL book signing with the Jean Rhys pen for @royalsocietyofliterature - I chose my favourite Jean Rhys “Good Morning Midnight”
We also discuss ‘When the Sky Falls’ by Phil Earle chosen by Rob Biddulph and ‘Mend the Living’ by Maylis de Kerangal chosen by presenter Harriett Gilbert.
The programme airs Tuesday 26 July at 1630 on BBC Radio 4 with a repeat on Friday 29 July at 2300. Also available on BBC Sounds, details on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk
Mrs Death tells her story in Salena Godden’s
intoxicating and life-affirming debut novel
published by Canongate Books
Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, memoirist, essayist, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican heritage based in London. Her highly acclaimed debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death is winner of The Indie Book Award for fiction and The Peoples Book Prize 2022, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, The Nibbies, British Book Awards Book Of The Year Fiction Debut, The Bad Form Book Of The Year shortlist and a Guardian book of the year 2021
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