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The Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist

A good day for The Girl with Glass Feet, which has made it onto the longlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2010.  I’m staggered that the book is being recognised in this way.  Here’s the link.
Most of my internet time over the last month or so has been spent updating my website.  It takes me [...]

Posted 22 July 2010 † Ali § ‡ Comments (4) °

Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist

Immense excitement for me today - just heard that The Girl with Glass Feet has been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.  It’s in good company, alongside Maria Allen’s Before the Earthquake and Talk of the Town by the fabulous Jacob Polley.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8695293.stm

Posted 21 May 2010 † Ali § ‡ Comments Off °

Costa First Novel Award 2009

I’m delighted to be able to say that The Girl with Glass Feet has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2009.  You can read all the shortlists for all the categories here and you can also listen to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row round-up here.

Posted 25 November 2009 † Ali § ‡ Comments (3) °

Guardian review

I had the amazing surprise on Saturday morning of coming upon a lovely review of The Girl with Glass Feet in The Guardian, so many thanks to them and to Catherine Taylor, the reviewer.  I’ll post it on here in full next week, when I have the internet back up at home, but if you’d like to [...]

Posted 27 May 2009 † Ali § Reviews ‡ Comments (2) °

May Day

I wanted to write something on Friday about The Girl with Glass Feet finally being available, but opened up the blog form and instantly got blog block, which sounds more horrible than it is.  I think it was difficult to say anything because it was quietly overwhelming.  The good folk at Blackwell Broad Street in [...]

Posted 05 May 2009 † Ali § ‡ Comments (1) °

Unicorns

I have been drawing some unicorns of various kinds.  Made up animals are one of the things I like most in the world, so they seemed like a nice thing to draw.  The kind of unicorns I always liked in folklore were the timid ones that hid in the woods, rather than the big brash [...]

Posted 30 April 2009 † Ali § Made up animals ‡ Comments (2) °

www.alishaw.co.uk goes live

Hello and welcome to what will be my online journal, keeping track of news about my novel The Girl with Glass Feet.  You can of course read all about the book here, and read the book itself as of May 1st.  That’s just around the corner now and I’m both excited and a little anxious [...]

Posted 27 April 2009 † Ali § ‡ Comments (2) °