Flying internationally with a wheelchair
My first time travelling across the Atlantic with my own wheelchair.
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Silenced voices: relative representation in the House of Commons
In a perfectly just world, we might expect to see the demographics of the electorate reflected in the demographics of their representatives. It is not a perfectly just world. To find out just how unjust it is, I’ve been doing some counting, using population numbers as a proxy for electorate and comparing them to the newly-elected MPs.
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As all those English (and Welsh) citizens are about to discover, you get the country you vote for. Things are going to get worse for a while. Meanwhile, people will suffer and die.
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“Nicola Griffith works a special brand of literary magic…a stunning blend of real history and soaring imagination…steeped in the language and customs of early Britain.” More fab reviews from the UK.
Read moreThe best birthday present you could give me
Today is my birthday. Tomorrow, Hild is out in paperback in the UK. The best present you could give me? Go buy it!
Read moreUK paperback of Hild available for pre-order
Out in six weeks, October 1: a luscious, newly-typeset paperback edition of Hild. At 640 pages, it’s even more capacious…
Read moreComing to the UK in early October
I’ll be in the UK from October 1 to 10 to do Hild-ish things. In the north I’ll be doing events for…
Read moreComing soon: I am everywhere…
…But in the next ten days or so perhaps not here a lot. On Thursday, 24th July, Hild will be published in the UK…
Read moreHILD ebook today in ANZ, UK, India
Hild of the lovely cover is now on sale as an ebook in the UK, ANZ, and India. Yes. You can download it…
Read moreWhere to buy Hild in ANZ and India and UK
On April 10 Hild will go on sale in Australia, New Zealand, India, other Commonwealth countries, and the UK. Initial publication will…
Read moreHild coming to the UK in just two weeks
Exactly two weeks today, on Thursday 10 April, Hild will be published in the UK as an ebook. The hardback and paperback are…
Read moreHILD UK cover reveal
The UK edition of Hild will be published by Blackfriars ebook April 10 (pre-order) hardback and paperback July 24 (pre-order) audiobook (already available) The…
Read moreHILD to be published in the UK!
I’m delighted to announce that Hild will be published in the UK by Blackfriars, a brand-new imprint of Little, Brown UK. The…
Read moreAud in Kindle for UK?
From: Susan Robinson I have just come across your Aud books via Stay, borrowed from my local library. Once I realised it…
Read moreHild in the UK?
From: Sue Do you have any idea when Hild will be available in the UK? Online sellers that have it are shipping…
Read moreSome interesting bits of an interesting year, Part One
As always, it’s been an interesting year. Despite rewriting Hild, a 200,000 words novel, more than once, I managed to do a…
Read moreWaterstones showrooming for Amazon
A few months ago I talked about the notion of showrooming, in which customers walk into a bricks-and-mortar retailer establishment, play with/read the…
Read moreFast car…
Today I got my haircut. One of the tracks that was playing was a weird cover–by a white boy–of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast…
Read moreBack from the UK
Blurry because, well, we’d all been drinking… It’s a little after noon here in Seattle and a brilliantly sunny day. Which is…
Read morePsephology
Thanks to the ever-splendid Economist, I discovered a new word this week: psephology, the study of elections, voting patterns and electoral behaviour,…
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