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Tony Earnshaw

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in Shipley, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

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Tony Earnshaw is a novelist, poet, librettist and playwright. Tony’s plays have been performed in London, Edinburgh and New York and in numerous venues around the UK. Tony's latest poetry collection, 'Paths and Digressions', came out in 2021. Other work includes a number of plays and a book for children, Tilly the Tadpole. Blessed Assurance is his first novel.

When not writing, Tony chairs Mole Valley Poets, is secretary of Mole Valley Scriptwriters and is a director of Terrestrial, a Bristol-based arts company, and of Damn Cheek Productions CIC. In his spare time he plays sax with the Greensand Band and sings with Brockham Choral.

Tony was born and brought up in the old West Riding of Yorkshire but now lives with his wife in the Surrey Hill ...more

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	Blessed Assurance 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2019 — 4 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
	Tilly the Tadpole it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	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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On Paradox and knowing

‘What we can’t know is liberating … long live vagueness, muddle, compromise – and liberation and inspiration.’

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