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About the authors:
Rob Magnuson Smith is winner of the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the David Higham Award, and the William Faulkner Award for his debut novel The Gravedigger. His second novel Scorper (Granta Books) was called by the Independent as ‘odd, original, darkly comic; Kafka crossed with Flann O’Brien.’ Rob’s latest novel Seaweed Rising was described by novelist Akhil Sharma as ‘truly weird and wonderful.’ His short fiction appears in Ploughshares, Granta, The Saturday Evening Post, the Guardian, Fiction International, MoMA Magazine and the Australian Book Review. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the Museum of Life Sciences, The Eden Project, the Arctic Circle Arts/Science Expedition and the Cuckmere Cable Hut, where key chapters of Seaweed Rising were conceived. His academic appointments include the University of British Columbia, Hong Kong University, and Vassar College. Currently he teaches at Exeter University in Cornwall.
Webpage: www.robmagnusonsmith.com
Seaweed Rising is ‘funny and grim and like nothing you have read before. Effortlessly original’ - Richard Francis
Nicholas Royle is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Sussex and has lived in Seaford for the past sixteen years. His many books include Telepathy and Literature (1991), E.M. Forster (1999), Jacques Derrida (2003), The Uncanny (2003), Veering: A Theory of Literature (2011), How to Read Shakespeare (2014) and Hélène Cixous (2020), as well as two novels, Quilt (2010) and An English Guide to Birdwatching (2017), and Mother: A Memoir (2020). With Andrew Bennett, Royle is also co-author of Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel (1994), An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (sixth edition, 2023) and This Thing Called Literature (second edition, 2024). He is not sure how to categorise his new book, David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine, but is very pleased for it to be in the company of Seaweed Rising.
Webpage: https://myriadeditions.com/creator/nicholas-royle/
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine is ‘bizarre, brilliant, and unlike anything you’ve ever read’ - The Telegraph
