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Laura Canning

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Laura Canning grew up in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, in the 1980s and 1990s. She’s currently based in London, but travels nationally/internationally as much as possible.

Laura has a BA in English Lit and an MA in creative writing/community arts from Queen's University Belfast, qualifying her to teach/facilitate writing workshops to vulnerable groups. In the early 2000s, she ran the inaugural Women's Programme for a homeless charity in Belfast and later worked for Women's Aid. She then took a PGDip in magazine journalism from City University London; since then, her journalism has since been published internationally and she was the lead writer for a multi award-winning travel website for ten years. She now writes fiction full time.

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Greetings, all! As I grandly announced last October, my blog, on books and other concerns, is now at my main website: http://www.lauracanning.net/blog.html

But I wanted to share this one here to get it to as wide an audience as possible - A Reader's Guide to Antonia Forest fanfic. There has been some superlative writing done about the Marlow world, and it's worth sharing again. As AF is sadly no lo Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 14, 2015 05:33 • Tags: antonia-forest, autumn-term, fan-fiction, fanfic, nicola-marlow, the-marlows, trennels

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	Taste the Bright Lights 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2008 — 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
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	European Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century: Discourses, Directions and Genres by Ingrid Lewis (Editor), Laura Canning (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 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
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Austerity Britain, 1945-51

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From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68

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