Sun 11 May 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Writing Literary Fiction with Charlotte Mendelson and Elizabeth Macneal

Name: Writing Literary Fiction with Charlotte Mendelson and Elizabeth Macneal
Start: 2025-05-11
End: 2025-05-11
Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery

at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

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Booker Prize nominee Charlotte Mendelson, and Caledonia Novel Prize winner Elizabeth Macneal discuss their inspiration, writing process and their latest novels: The Wife and The Burial Plot.

The Wife by Charlotte Mendelson: Dr Penny Cartwright is everything that Zoe Stamper is not: glamorous, sophisticated and openly gay. When they begin a passionate affair, a lifetime of wedded bliss seems within Zoe’s grasp. But this is not a love story. It’s the story of how love can bring about disaster . . .

The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal: A spellbinding historical Gothic thriller about murder and manipulation, set in Victorian London.

Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte Mendelson has written and reviewed for the Guardian, the TLS, the Independent on Sunday, the Observer and elsewhere. Her first short story, ‘Blood Sugar’, was published in New Writing 7 and twice broadcast on Radio 4. Her first novel was Love In Idleness. She was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award for her second novel, Daughters of Jerusalem, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She also received the London Arts New London Writers’ Award and a K. Blundell Trust Award, and was shortlisted for Le Prince Maurice Roman d’Amour Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her third novel, When We Were Bad, was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008. She was chosen as one of Waterstone's 25 authors of the future.

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Elizabeth MacNeal

Elizabeth is a Scottish author and potter, based in Twickenham. Her bestselling novels, The Doll Factory and Circus of Wonders are widely popular and we will be discussing her latest book, The Burial Plot, with her. As well as writing, Elizabeth also makes ceramics in a small studio in her garden. Her ceramics have appeared on Mary Berry’s Britain’s Best Home Cook on BBC1, have been acquired by The Museum of London for their permanent collection.

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