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Spice: The Best-Thumbed Parts Of Her Novel

The Best-Thumbed Parts Of Her Novel

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The Best-Thumbed Parts Of Her Novel by Robert Shearman. A writer is losing her words.

The Best-Thumbed Parts Of Her Novel by Robert Shearman. A writer is losing her way, and losing the words from her previous novels.

A series of five specially-commissioned tales revolving around the possibilities of the word spice.

5/5. The Best-Thumbed Parts Of Her Novel by Robert Shearman.
A writer is losing her way, and losing the words from her previous novels.

Robert Shearman has written five short story collections, and has won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Edge Hill Readers Prize. He was resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, and regular writer for Alan Ayckbourn in Scarborough. His interractve BBC radio series The Chain Gang won two Sony awards. But he is probably best known for his work on Doctor Who, bringing back the Daleks for the BAFTA winning first series in an episode nominated for a Hugo Award.

Writer: Robert Shearman
Reader: Meera Syal
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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