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The State Of British Fiction?
I was browsing in Waterstones on Friday and I notices a trend. I was picking up British authors, skim reading the blurb and putting it down again. I bought two books: one was by a Polish writer, the other is Scandinavian.
So I started to wonder, why am I being drawn to non-British writers? Is it me, or something to do with publishers? Are they becoming so adverse to risk, that they are squeezing out all diversity from their lists?
Is British fiction becoming generic?
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Never heard of it, who is the publisher?
I've got a book on order from Creme de la Crime, the author is Geordie and the book is set in 18th century Newcastle. The sad truth is that I've had to go trawling backlists of an indie publisher to find it.
He writes mainly literary fiction. This is like a travelogue, two stories, maybe linked, you're never quite sure. Excellent writing.
There are some good ones out there, just got to keep looking.
It seems to be getting harder to find the good ones.
I haven't read any of her new ones though to be honest.
The author.