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You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle by Colwill Brown
Colwill Brown's powerful story is a contender for the BBC National Short Story Award.
- You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle by Colwill Brown
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- K.J. Orr talks to John Wilson about her story
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- Hilary Mantel talks to John Wilson about her story
- Author Claire-Louise Bennett talks to John Wilson about her story
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- Jeremy Page discusses Do it Now, Jump the Table
- Hilary Mantel discusses The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
- Frances Leviston discusses Broderie Anglaise
- Mark Haddon discusses Bunny
- Jonathan Buckley discusses Briar Road
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- 'Whatever self she'd had before she met him was invisible to her now.'
- "She begins to walk strangely on the tips of her toes, her knees bent, her heels lifted"
- Front Row's interview with Lavinia Greenlaw
- Front Row's interview with Lionel Shriver
- Front Row's interview with Lucy Wood
- Front Row's interview with Lisa Blower
- Front Row's interview with Sarah Hall
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