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Alex Lockwood

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PRAISE FOR The Chernobyl Privileges

SHORTLISTED for the Rubery Book Award 2019

SHORTLISTED for the Impress Prize for New Writing

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"...a compelling story, well-told..." Rob Edwards, Investigative Journalist

"..a well-wrought and sharply intelligent book." Nicholas Royle, author of novel An English Guide to Birdwatching

"The central character is completely convincing: his emotional life and moral confusion are unpacked patiently and scrupulously as the full horror of his early experiences in the USSR are gradually revealed. The focus shifts between modern Scotland and eighties/nineties Ukraine to weave a narrative that begins slowly but gradually builds into a tense, riveting tale that examines p ...more

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Alex Lockwood's Blog: Notes on Writing

Will tonight’s TV mini-series Chernobyl do a good job of telling history?

Tonight (in a few hours, at 9pm) the new Sky/HBO series Chernobyl launches to tell the story of what happened in the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. Watch the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9APL...

Written by Craig Mazin (Hangover II, of all credits) and a cast of Jared Harris (Mad Men) and Emily Watson (On Chesil Beach, Breaking the Waves), it is a five-part dramatic Read more of this blog post »

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