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Elizabeth Baines

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Bridgend, South Wales, The United Kingdom

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http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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March 2008

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Novelist, short story writer and playwright. Latest novel ASTRAL TRAVEL, published by Salt. Also available from Salt: novels TOO MANY MAGPIES and THE BIRTH MACHINE, and two collections of stories, USED TO BE and BALANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.

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'Intricately beautiful and abruptly brutal ... I greedily consumed every paragraph, and yearned for more free time when I had to put the book down to do something inconsequential like work or sleep ... I can't remember the last time a work of fiction aroused such sympathy and indignant anger in me ... one of the most memorable and brilliant books I've read this year' - Bookmunch on Astral Travel.

'It'll blow you away when you least expect it' - Charlie Place, The Worm Hol ...more

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Average rating: 3.54 · 310 ratings · 74 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Too Many Magpies 3.56 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birth Machine 3.33 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balancing on the Edge of the World 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Used to Be 3.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astral Travel 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Compass And Torch 3.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Glossary Of Bread 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[Too Many Magpies] [By: Baines, Elizabeth] [October, 2009] by Elizabeth Baines (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Reading group: By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano

Clare suggested this novella narrated by Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who has also been a literary critic and poet. It is a deathbed confession, or more accurately an attempt at self-justification, as he recounts a compromised life in which he blinded himself to political atrocities going on around him by burying himself in literature - most notably Ancient Greek literature - an Read more of this blog post »

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