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Dunn, Kate

Kate Dunn worked as an actress for 10 years before publishing her first book. As well as her novel Rebecca’s Children, she has written three works of non-fiction: Always and Always: Wartime Letters of Hugh and Margaret Williams, Exit Through the Fireplace: The Great Days of Rep and Do Not Adjust Your Set: The Early Days of Live Television.

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Nuffin’ Like a Puffin

Kate Dunn on Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of the Greek Heroes

I was a gluttonous reader, possessive and insatiable. On my desk before me sits a little pile of three-and-sixpenny story books, so freighted with emotion that I can hardly bear to open them. The first one I pick up is Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green. The brown Sellotape splinters as I turn the pages for the first time in nearly forty years. Tucked inside is an order coupon that I forgot to post, with a cross in the box next to Aesop’s Fables and, sure enough, on the title page is a sticker showing a lion and a unicorn, and standing between them is a puffin with his beak buried in a book. ‘From the library of . . .’ underneath which I have written ‘K. S. H. Dunn – MINE’.
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In Flight from Fitchville

Kate Dunn on Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

The shelves in my study are crammed with books that I only quite like, to the extent that I think they barely represent my taste in reading, largely because I have pressed all my favourites on voracious friends and family. So imagine my delight a few weeks ago when I discovered a copy of Anagrams by Lorrie Moore in a bookshop bin marked ‘Why Don’t You Try This?’ My second copy of this excellent novel cost me only 99p, something about which I have mixed feelings: as a reader I think it’s wonderful that books of this calibre are available for so little; as a writer I can’t help thinking that Lorrie Moore is being sold down the river. But that’s another story . . .

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