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3 days ago · Sorcha Pollak. Wed Jul 3 2024 - 06:15. On Monday, Donald Trump enjoyed a major victory when the US supreme court ruled former presidents were immune from prosecution for “official acts”. The ...
1 day ago · Rebecca Watson Rebecca is a writer, speaker, YouTube personality, and unrepentant science nerd. In addition to founding and continuing to run Skepchick, she hosts Quiz-o-Tron, a monthly science-themed quiz show and podcast that pits comedians against nerds.
3 days ago · I meet Rebecca Watson on a muggy Monday morning at the Bindery, the swish art deco home of Faber, her UK publisher. A subdued hay-hangover vibe in the open-plan office is animated by Watson’s ...
3 days ago · Watson integrates the raw strangeness of the present moment with the dagger-bright flash of memories . In a childhood defined by the failure of her parents’ marriage, Rosa felt victimised by a brother she came increasingly to fear. What made matters worse was that no one else seemed to notice she was being bullied.
3 days ago · Described as “stunning”, Rebecca Watson’s I Will Crash follows on – almost four years to the date, and again with Faber – from her debut Little Scratch, which took unsuspecting readers unawares as it followed a young woman’s thoughts and feelings over a single, seemingly unassuming day, drawing comparisons with formally innovative works such as Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann and Max Porter‘s Grief is a Thing With Feathers.
2 days ago · Rebecca Watson’s debut novel “Little Scratch” was one of my favourite novels of 2021 – and went on to be shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novels and, as I had hoped, the Goldsmith Prize (for fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form).
2 days ago · The new novel from Rebecca Watson, one of the Observer's best debut novelists of 2021 and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. It was a peace offering, I knew that you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Alright unless you want to make amends It's been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke.
