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Nicholas Royle

Born

in Cheshire, England

January 01, 1963

Website

http://www.nicholasroyle.com/

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Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Literary Criticism

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Nicholas Royle is an English writer. He is the author of seven novels, two novellas and a short story collection. He has edited sixteen anthologies of short stories. A senior lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. He works as a fiction reviewer for The Independent and the Warwick Review and as an editor for Salt Publishing.

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Hills of dreams

Everyone knows Sheffield is built on hills. Seven of them. Knowing it is one thing, feeling it another.

Invited to be ‘in conversation’ with Tony White at Site Gallery, for an event that is part of Strong Language, curated by Tim Etchells, which in turn is part of the Off the Shelf festival, I decide to travel in the direction of Sheffield by train and alight at Dore & Totley, on the outskirts Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.14 · 27,552 ratings · 1,401 reviews · 177 distinct works • Similar authors

	First Novel 3.81 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Best British Short Stories 2017 3.32 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	The Best British Short Stories 2011 3.43 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector 3.93 avg rating — 88 ratings — 2 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 Best British Short Stories 2013 3.49 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Best British Short Stories 2019 by Nicholas Royle (editor), Julia Armfield, Elizabeth Baines (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2019 — 2 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 Best British Short Stories 2012 by Nicholas Royle (Editor), Dan Powell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2012 — 7 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
	Best British Short Stories 2016 by Nicholas Royle (Editor), Leone Ross (Goodreads Author), Robert Sheppard 3.62 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2016 — 2 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
	Best British Short Stories 2015 by Nicholas Royle (Editor), Joanna Walsh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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 Best British Short Stories 2014 by Nicholas Royle (Editor), Joanna Walsh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.56 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2014 — 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

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Series by Nicholas Royle

The Best British Short Stories (13 books)
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3.48 avg rating — 881 ratings

Frank Warner (2 books)
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3.31 avg rating — 114 ratings

Time Out anthologies (5 books)
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Conrad Williams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

Rhonda Carrier (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

Kim Newman (Contributor),

Esther Freud (Contributor),

Angelica Jacob (Contributor),

Stewart Home (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

Chris Petit (Contributor),

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3.58 avg rating — 50 ratings

Darklands (3 books)
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Grahan Oyce,

Garrs Rilorth,

Kim Nevxan

3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings

Quotes by Nicholas Royle (?)

“There are always differences, tensions, paradoxes between what a text says (or what an author wants to say, or thinks s/he is saying) and what a text does.”
― Nicholas Royle, Jacques Derrida

tags: derrida, tension, text

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“Differance brings together the two notions of differing and deferring.”
― Nicholas Royle, Jacques Derrida

tags: deferring, derrida, differance

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“In truth, Derrida has always been preoccupied (in the strongest senses of that word) by what precedes or exceeds language.”
― Nicholas Royle, Jacques Derrida

tags: language, preoccupation, sense

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