Laura Beatty
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Laura Beatty is a writer awarded the Authors' Club First Novel Award for her 2008 novel Pollard
, also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize
. She is married with three children and lives in the middle of Salcey Forest
in Northamptonshire
which provided the inspiration for Pollard.
She has also written two biographies, the first about Lillie Langtry
which contained the first publication of correspondence between Lillie and her lover Arthur Jones.
Pollard (novel)
Pollard is a novel written by Laura Beatty published in 2008 by Chatto & Windus in hardback and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books...
, also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize
Ondaatje Prize
The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is given for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry which evokes the "spirit of a place", and which is written by someone who is a citizen of or who has been...
. She is married with three children and lives in the middle of Salcey Forest
Salcey Forest
Salcey Forest is a former medieval hunting forest in the south of the county of Northamptonshire in England.It lies to the east of the village of Hartwell, between Northampton and Newport Pagnell...
in Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...
which provided the inspiration for Pollard.
She has also written two biographies, the first about Lillie Langtry
Lillie Langtry
Lillie Langtry , usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U.S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British actress born on the island of Jersey...
which contained the first publication of correspondence between Lillie and her lover Arthur Jones.
Non-fiction
- Lillie LangtryLillie LangtryLillie Langtry , usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U.S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British actress born on the island of Jersey...
, Manner, Masks and Morals (1999, Chatto & Windus) - Anne BoleynAnne BoleynAnne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...
, The Wife Who Lost Her Head (2001, Short Books, for children aged 10+ )