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Past Imperfect: Rewriting History in the Bridgerton Age
This article originally appeared at The Nerd: https://thenerddaily.com/joanna-nadin-author-guest-post/ ‘The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it,’ said Oscar Wilde. He was suggesting, we can deduce, that history is exactly that: a story, coloured by the biases, however … Continue reading
Autistic All Along
This article originally appeared on Culturefly I was diagnosed as autistic in the autumn of 2024, a few years after my daughter’s diagnosis with ADHD and the GP’s suggested pursuit of an ASD diagnosis in its wake. I was 54 … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, Fiction, love, Uncategorized, YA
Tagged actuallyautistic, adhd, autism, book-review, books, mental-health, YA romance
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Come on, Carnegie!
We got pipped at the post for the Little Rebels Award, but hot on the heels of being shortlisted for the UKLA Prize and the Tower Hamlets Book Award, I’m beaming with pride to find out No Man’s Land has … Continue reading
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Tagged carnegie, Cornwall, Dystopia, fascism, Joanna Nadin
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Time to get Radical
No Man’s Land was born in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, and Trump’s rise in the US. As a former political adviser, I wanted to be back doing something to change the mess we were heading towards and found … Continue reading
World Book Day is going to be LITERALLY brilliant!
Last February, I had the kind of email a writer dreams of; the kind that comes from their lovely editor and begins with ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ in shouty capitals. It was telling me that Rikin and I had been chosen to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Joanna Nadin, Matt Lucas, MG, Michael Morpurgo, middle grade, Nadia Shireen, Simon Farnaby, WBD, World Book Day, Worst Class
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An adventure in No Man’s Land
‘I could feel it coming. War, I mean. Creeping up on us, into our town, down our street, into our house. Smiling like a friend, like it was Batman come to save us when really it was the joker all … Continue reading
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Tagged Calstock, Cornwall, Dystopia, Joanna Nadin, Joe All Alone, MG, Tamar
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Sneak peek of No Man’s Land
No Man’s Land is out next week, but if you scroll down, you can get a sneak preview of the opening chapters… Heroes and Villains I used to think I knew about heroes. That some wore fancy outfits and flexed … Continue reading
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Welcome to Essex
After two lockdown moves and much toddlerish impatience on my part, The Talk of Pram Town is officially published today (yes I know some of you already have yours, but only fancy pants writers / spies get actual embargoes, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1980s, Essex, Essex Girl, Harlow, Joanna Nadin, Mantle Books, royal wedding, women's fiction
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Sneak read of The Talk of Pram Town
The Talk of Pram Town is published TOMORROW! (does merry dance) But in case you wanted to quality check contents / spy / be generally a bit beaky (who doesn’t?) then here, for your delight, is the prologue. And if … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1980s, Essex, Essex Girl, Fiction, Harlow, Joanna Nadin, royal wedding, women's fiction
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The real Pram Town
The Talk of Pram Town is, at its heart, a book about family, and what that meant in the 70s and 80s, and about the potentially fraught mother-daughter relationship. But it is also a book about a single, special place. … Continue reading
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