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F.C. Malby

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The United Kingdom

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https://fcmalby.com

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Thriller, Crime, Short Stories

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John Buchan, George Orwell, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, Hilary Mantel, Al ...more

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F. C. Malby is a novelist, poet and short fiction author. She won The People’s Book Awards, the Litro Flash Award and Publication of the Year in Spillwords Press. Her work has been widely published internationally, both online and in print.

Malby's poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines and podcasts, and she is a contributor to five print anthologies published by Pigeons Books for Pens of the Earth, Reflex Press, Unthank Books and Litro, alongside Pulitzer prize winner, Anthony Doerr.

She has travelled widely, teaching English in the Czech Republic, the Philippines and London. She has a first class joint honours degree in Geography and Education, is a qualified teacher, and has worked as a portrait and landscape photographer. She ...more

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Average rating: 3.59 · 54 ratings · 24 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Take Me to the Castle 3.26 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Unthology 8 by Ashley Stokes (Goodreads Author) (editor), Robin Jones (Editor), Clare Fisher (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 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
	Blood Red 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Hearing Voices: The Litro Anthology of New Fiction by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Akoto (Editor), Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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 Bench 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Bird 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Dead Drop it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Skeleton Bunker it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	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
	My Brother Was a Kangaroo 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	A Place of Unfinished Sentences: Short Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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Author Interview with Helen Salisbury

I came to know Helen when my story, ‘Prolific,’ was published with Pens of the Earth, and later published in Wild Seas, Wilder Cities. She co-founded the Hampshire-based literary environmental group alongside Richard Salsbury, and together they edited the collection, Wild Seas, Wilder Cities, which supports the Solent Seagrass Restoration Project. I wanted to findContinue reading "Author Interview

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“The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.”
― F.C. Malby, Take Me to the Castle

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“The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.”
― F.C. Malby, Take Me to the Castle

tags: historical-fiction, literary-fiction

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“Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.”
― F.C. Malby, Take Me to the Castle

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“Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.”
― F.C. Malby, Take Me to the Castle

tags: historical-fiction, literary-fiction

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tags: historical-fiction, literary-fiction

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“To Jana's mind everybody seemed happy to see BAbichka and resisted returning her, like a misplaced package sent to the wrong address. It was as if the recipient opened it up, knowing it should be returned, but wondering who long they could legitimately keep it before being changed with theft.”
― F.C. Malby, Take Me to the Castle

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“The others moved in like a wake of vultures, ready to devour their prey. she had seen it on television once. 'Scavengers,' Tatinek called them. They swoop in and feed off the carcasses of animals that are too weak to escape - lots of them on battlefields. This looked the same, only the victim wasn't there, just his writing, his typewriter, and bits of dark paper.”
― F.C. Malby, Take Me to the Castle