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Elizabeth Baines

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Born

Bridgend, South Wales, The United Kingdom

Website

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: 3.52 · 293 ratings · 77 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 3.34 avg rating — 38 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 3.75 avg rating — 24 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 3.19 avg rating — 21 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
	Body Cuts did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988	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
	[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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Well, it's a good while (as ChatGpt has noted!) since I announced on my website that my next book, The Mountain and Other Stories, is to be published by the science fiction imprint at Goldsmiths Press, Gold SF. I still have no publishing date, but things are now moving: the contract is signed, I've completed the (impressively lengthy and detailed) form for the marketing department, and now the

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