Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Flying internationally with a wheelchair

My first time travelling across the Atlantic with my own wheelchair.

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Posted on December 6, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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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Posted on June 12, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

UK RIP

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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Posted on June 24, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

More UK reviews

“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.

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Posted on October 21, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The 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!

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Posted on September 30, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

UK 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…

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Posted on August 20, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Coming 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…

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Posted on August 25, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Coming 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…

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Posted on July 18, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

HILD 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…

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Posted on April 10, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Where 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…

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Posted on March 31, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild 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…

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Posted on March 27, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

HILD 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…

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Posted on March 17, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

HILD 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…

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Posted on February 14, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Aud 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…

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Posted on January 11, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild 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…

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Posted on January 10, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Some 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…

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Posted on December 29, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Waterstones 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…

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Posted on May 22, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Fast 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…

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Posted on March 23, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Back 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…

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Posted on March 1, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Psephology

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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Posted on April 30, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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