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No unboxing video because a) I am incapable of mustering sufficient ‘ooh what could possibly be inside?’ vibes and 2. I look like a hobbit crossed with Leo Sayer on a bad hair day, but LOOK! BOOKS! One week to go... #essex #harlow #essexgirl #amwritingLockdown library: loved it. Classic Marian. Funny. Sad. Unputdownable.Started a new thing. In my happy place. #amwritingLockdown Library: Moving and beautiful, if painful at times, memoir of growing up in the sixties and seventies; all the more poignant for the loss of the author.The only item of sensible clothing I’m happy to wear...Hello, lovely people. My homage to Harlow and the 1981 royal wedding The Talk of Pram Town is FINALLY coming out in March and to celebrate I’ll be in conversation with lovely Emma from Bookish and the brilliant Jenny Quintana. Yes tickets are £5 BUT it’s helping to keep indie bookshops alive. Please please do come. Sign up via the link here... https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joanna-nadin-andjenny-quintana-in-conversation-tickets-139839739425Twitter
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Tag Archives: Joanna Nadin
Welcome to Pram Town
The lockdown-delayed novel is almost out in the world, and, while I can’t have the much-anticipated bookshop party with Twiglets and Wotsits and Panda Pops, I can still celebrate, and even better, with fellow Essex girl, Jenny Quintana, whose new … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Essex, Essex Girl, Fiction, Harlow, Jenny Quintana, Joanna Nadin
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Welcome to 4b: The Worst Class in the World
Schools might be closed for most of us, but for one long-suffering teacher, Mr Nidgett, the classroom is packed with shenanigans. That’s because he’s in charge of 4b, who are LITERALLY The Worst Class in the World, at least according … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, Fiction, middle grade, Reading, Uncategorized
Tagged Bloomsbury, Funny, humour, Joanna Nadin, MG, reading, Rikin Parekh, school
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A Penny (Dreadful) a day…
Isn’t the world weird? The prospect of being holed up in our homes is daunting, especially for those of us with kids. Mine’s grown now, but many years ago, she was a menace, who would have destroyed the house in … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, Fiction, Reading
Tagged Joanna Nadin, Penny Dreadful, story time, storytelling
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And another one…
2020-2021 is a busy book year for me, but this one is a biggie. Second adult novel, set in Essex in 1981 and featuring Grifter bikes, Charles and Di, Panda Pops, a Welsh Elvis impersonator, a fake Marc Bolan, and … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, creative writing, Fiction, love, Uncategorized, women's fiction
Tagged 1969, 1980s, 1981, Essex, Harlow, Joanna Nadin, new towns, royal wedding, The Queen of Bloody Everything, women's fiction
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Book Group Questions for Queen of Bloody Everything
In the space of two hours I have had LITERALLY two emails asking if there are any book group questions for The Queen of Bloody Everything. There aren’t. Or there weren’t. Until now. Because I just thunk some up. SPOILER … Continue reading
Birdy Jones is all alone
Of all the questions I get asked on school visits, there are several perennials: How old are you, Miss? How much do you earn, Miss? Do you know JK Rowling / Jacqueline Wilson / David Walliams / any other much … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, Fiction, middle grade, Reading
Tagged Joanna Nadin, Joe All Alone, Leeds United, Liz Kessler, MG, Sean Bean, UKMG
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CBBC’s Joe All Alone and the truth about child poverty
Joe All Alone is a book (and, now, BBC TV series) about friendship. It’s a book about family, and what constitutes that today. It’s a book about bullying. It’s a book about difference and acceptance. But beneath all that, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Fiction, middle grade, Teen, Uncategorized, YA
Tagged CBBC, child poverty, Daniel Frogson, Home Alone, Joanna Nadin, Joe All Alone, Joe Sims, Vas Blackwood
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Bid on Bloody Everything
In a bid (oh come on) to raise money for Marie-Curie, whose nurses look after terminally ill patients and support their families, a bunch of authors are auctioning off signed and dedicated copies of latest releases, including books from Ruth … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, love, romance, women's fiction
Tagged 1970s, 1980s, Essex, Joanna Nadin, Mantle Books, Picador, Queen of Bloody Everything, signed copy
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A face for radio
Many years ago, when I still thought I’d lead a glamorous life in the meejah, I read radio news for a living. And it’s a medium I adore – the focus on words, the invisibility of it, so that, when … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC London, Essex, Joanna Nadin, Mantle Books, Pan Macmillan, Radio 1, Saffron Walden, swearing, The Queen of Bloody Everything
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The Queen of Bloody Everything (including the Indy’s and Red’s Top 10)
I know the rule: don’t read reviews, good or bad. That way you don’t risk heartbreak, or ranting mintily on Twitter. But that way you don’t get the ridiculous overexcitement that comes with this: making both Red magazine’s and the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Fiction
Tagged daughters, Joanna Nadin, mothers, Saffron Walden, The Queen of Bloody Everything, women's fiction
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