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Annalena McAfee (born c.1952) [1] Annalena is a British children's author and journalist. Biography. In 2003 she served as a judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK's largest annual literary award.
Annalena McAfee was born in London to a Scottish mother and a Glasgow-Irish father. She founded the Guardian Review, which she edited for six years, and was Arts and Literary Editor of the Financial Times. Her first novel, The Spoiler, was published in 2011. Her most recent novel is Nightshade (2020).
Feb 4, 2017 · Self-deprecating, with a quick sense of humour, McAfee was an influential journalist and editor before turning full time to writing fiction. In her 32-year career, she worked for the...
Mar 27, 2020 · By the same token, Annalena McAfee’s brilliant and biting new novel could be described as exceptionally un generous. Nightshade, which tells the story of a botanical artist reckoning with her...
Feb 8, 2017 · We talk about the concept of home with Annalena McAfee, author of Hame; we walk the length of Hadrian's Wall with Rory Stewart, author of The Marches, and discuss the whole notion of borders; and finally we join Denise Mina on a tour of Glasgow's murky past as she tells us more about the real crime behind her latest novel, The Long Drop.
Mar 21, 2020 · Nightshade. Family life. Reputation. They took a lifetime to build and a second to wreck. Harvill Secker, 2020. Alfred A. Knopf, August 2020. Eve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now — forty years later — an artist herself.
Sep 2, 2021 · Nightshade by Annalena McAfee — a biting portrait of the artist as a ‘difficult’ woman The author’s third novel makes us root for her heroine — then twists the knife Save
