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Tag Archives: Walney Island
Song of the Sea God by Chris Hill
“…Like we’d never shared in the sea’s flotsam and jetsam; the dead whales, a leather backed turtle once, big as a coffee table. The dead bodies even, now and then, stranded in sleep with water trickling lazily from silent terracotta … Continue reading →
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Tagged Allegory, Ballard, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, Chris Hill, Chris Moore, Daily Telegraphy, English literature, English novel, experimental fiction, fiction, God figure, History, humour, Imagination, Islands, John Fowles, Literature, Lord of the Flies, Metaphor, Michael Moorcock, mythology, novel, Religion, Religious allegory, Sea God, Sea Narrative, Seaside, Surrealism, Symbolism. Jesus Christ, Walney Island, William Golding, Yeovil Prize
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Chris Hill on Skylight Press
Chris Hill, an exciting new British fiction writer, grew up on Walney Island just off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, at the northern tip of Morecambe Bay. This “bladder-wracked” Island, the largest of the Furness Island group, forms the backdrop … Continue reading →
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Tagged author, book, Bridport Prize, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, contemporary fiction, Crime, crime correspondent, Daily Telegraph, English fiction, English literature, English novel, experimental fiction, fiction, fred and rose west, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Journalism, Kate Atkinson, Literature, literature festival, morecambe bay, Newspaper, novel, novel prize, Short Stories, Song of the Sea God, Walney Island, writing, Yeovil Prize
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