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My ninth novel, 'The Golden Rule', inspired by 'Strangers on a Train', was published in July 2020 and has already been picked by all the nationals as a Book of 2020.
‘She's such a skilful storyteller who vividly dramatises our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion.’ Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo.
‘Read Amanda Craig's 'The Golden Rule'. Don't wait. Do so at once. How to write about real people in a modern setting and infuse it with what used to be one of the great themes of literature - the difficulty and importance of moral goodness.’ Philip Pullman.
The Golden Rule
When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web.
About Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Born in South Africa in 1959, she grew up in Italy and read English at Clare College Cambridge. Her sixth novel, Hearts And Minds, was long-listed for the Bailey's Prize...
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Recent News
News: Alex Clark interviews Lara Feigel & Amanda Craig
Alex Clark will be discussing the process of writing with Lara Feigel and Amanda Craig in an online interview for the Cambridge Literary Festival. Sign up on the Cambridge Literary Festival website.
News: Interview for the ‘Always Take Notes’ podcast
Amanda was recently interviewed for the ‘Always Take Notes’ podcast. Listen to the podcast in full on their website.
News: Amanda at the Lockdown Litfest
Paul Blezard interviews Amanda at the Lockdown Litfest. Listen to the interview in full.
Latest Journalism
Children’s Books Make Good Companions in a Crisis
As the time of coronavirus isolation began, some of my friends swore that this was the moment they would finally read all of Proust, or Dickens, or Finnegans Wake. Others have turned to Boccacio’s The Decameron, and Camus’s The Plague. But what most...
Beryl Bainbridge’s Historical Novels – Not A Delinquent Child
Introduction for the 2020 reissue by Abacus. The novels of Beryl Bainbridge are remarkable for many things but the feature that stuck in public memory is that, while five were short-listed for the Booker Prize, none won. Three of these...
Eva Ibbotson Short Stories
There are not many authors whom readers wish had written more, rather than fewer, novels but Eva Ibbotson is among them. Like Jane Austen, she wrote just six completed books: A Countess Below Stairs (1981), Magic Flutes (1982), Company of...