Elaine Burke

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 showcase: ‘Partings’ & ‘The Darkness Inside’ by Elaine Burke

Elaine Burke is a writer of fiction, with a particular interest in crime. As a child she devoured the Famous Five, Secret Seven and Nancy Drew books and, at secondary school, her English teacher encouraged her to pursue her passion in literature. She left school at 17 to attend the University of Stirling, where she Read More

Number one Chinese Restaurant (longlisted, 2019 Women’s prize for fiction)

This is the debut novel from Lillian Li, a graduate of the University of Michigan, whose previous work has been published in prestigious titles such as the New York Times and Granta. It is an intergenerational family saga set in a US Chinese restaurant. The restaurant’s speciality is Beijing Duck, the waiters even wearing “duck-patterned Read More