News
March 2008
Jill Dawson's latest novel The Great Lover, based on the lives and loves of poet Rupert Brooke, will be out in January 2009, published by Sceptre.
Jill will be teaching for the Sunday Times Oxford Literature Festival
Jill Dawson will be visiting Singapore, to take part in Creative Arts Workshops and a reading at the Arthouse, Singapore.
November, 2007
Jill Dawson is shortly to have a story translated into Chinese for the first time and included in the British Council New Writing Chinese Anthology.
Her story Fingertips appears in the New Asia Review.
Jill Dawson is included in the recently published: How I write: the Secret Lives of Authors edited by Dan Crowe and Phillip Oltermann (published by Rizzoli books May 2007).
September 2007, Jill Dawson has been invited to Perm in Russia, where her second novel Magpie will be studied by Russian students and teachers.
Later that month she will be travelling to the Readers and Writers Festival of Ubud in Bali
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Another country
Jill Dawson left a cramped council flat for wide open space - but would her muse go, too?
click here to read The Guardian article.
Jill Dawson's Tofino was broadcasts on Radio Four on 4th February. Details below...
Tofino
A week of stories about women on the road.
By Jill Dawson, read by Helen Longworth.
Poppy is 12, and finding travelling through the States and Canada with her mother and her best friend rather a trial, particularly as they seem to be trying to re-enact some kind of Thelma and Louise escapade.
But a whale-watching expedition off the coast of British Columbia is everything she hoped for and more.
Jill Dawson takes the plunge to swim with humpback whales in the Dominican Republic (left). Click here for more details.
Click here to listen to Jill Dawson's PODCAST on Watch Me Disappear.
Jill Dawson's new novel Watch Me Disappear was long-listed for the Orange Prize, click here for more details.
Click here to read Jill Dawson: Thriller writer in Fenland - interview with Jill Dawson in The Independent.
Watch Me Disappear was published by Sceptre on 13 March 2006
It was long-listed for the Orange Prize, click here for more details.'
'Deservedly nominated for the 2006 Orange Award for fiction, WMD is clever, compelling and impressive. Its characters and their discoveries stay with you long after you've closed the covers, which is surely the mark of an accomplished piece of fiction.'
DailyExpress
'...a compelling, haunting and intelligent read.'
Daily Mail
'...hovers between a mystery novel and an impressionistic poem....joyous and sexy.'
Anna Shapiro The Guardian
'The precison and skill of her writing lift this subtle novel about a woman's childhood into disturbing emotional territory. '
Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
'It is impressive and unsettling when a novelist gets under the skin of a child and filters their sinister experiences convincingly. In recent years, Michael Frayn has done it in Spies, Mavis Cheek in Patrick Parker's Progress and Joseph Connelly in Love is Strange. Watch Me Disappear is another fine example....an unusually skilful and haunting novel.'
Sam Phipps, Sunday Herald
‘Slow-burning, spine-crawling…It is a compelling, haunting and intelligent read.’
Amanda Craig, Daily Telegraph
‘An outstanding novel...Intense, intelligent and compelling’
Daily Telegraph
‘The flavour of the 1970s is so accurate you can taste it...An unusually skilful and haunting novel’
Sunday Herald
‘A chilling and sharply articulated exploration of memories, identity and family relationships’
Scotland on Sunday
One of the most perceptive novels you'll read on adolescent girls.'
Marie Claire
'Powerful moral backbone.'
Sunday Telegraph
'It is to Dawson's credit that she concentrates on creating credible and winning characters and a robust narrative. Despite the relatively foreseeable resolution to Tina's anxieties, watching her wrestle with them is compelling in itself, and Jill Dawson's elegant prose is always a pleasure to read.'
The Observer
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The eco-house she shares in The Fens with her husband and sons The Black House won the RIBA/ Manser Medal for the best new house in Britain 2004
Jill Dawson's award-winning novel Fred and Edie included in The Guardian's Top 50 Essential Contemporary Reads, as voted for by a sample of 500 people attending the paper's Hay Literary Festival.
Jill Dawson's novel Wild Boy is published in paperback by Sceptre
