Nell Stevens

The Original by Nell Stevens is one of our Top 20 Best Books of 2025!

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Claire Adam and Nell Stevens Novelists Claire Adam and Nell Stevens in conversation

Come and see Claire Adam @claireadamwriter.bsky.social and Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social at the @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Writers' Centre on the 26th November.

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

@nellstevens ‘s The Original is one of the best novels of the year, and Nell couldn’t be smarter in thinking through literary and historical hoaxes. It’s a must read. (And a must listen). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Thanks so much Ben!

Hope you enjoy!

Thanks so much!

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us In 1865, a British man who was working as a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, contacted a wealthy English family to announce himself as their long-lost heir. Roger Tichborne, an aristocrat, had be…

@nellstevens.bsky.social on a 19th-century scandal and the exploration of different worlds through fiction: “There is something utopian about the possibilities revealed by the Tichborne case—for social disruption and reinvention.”

A pile of the following books: 1. AN ARCHIVE by Edmund de Waal⁣ 2. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEATH by Kim Hyesoon, tr. Don Mee Choi⁣ 3. THE ORIGINAL by Nell Stevens⁣ 4. PLEASE LIVE by Lana Estemirova⁣ 5. THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY by Elif Shafak⁣ 6. AN OPINIONATED GUIDE TO LITERARY LONDON by John Clegg⁣ 7. HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq, tr. Deepa Bhasthi⁣ 8. LANGUAGE CITY by Ross Perlin⁣ 9. ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I by Solvej Balle, tr. Barbara J. Haveland⁣ 10. THE SAFEKEEP by Yael van der Wouden⁣

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Only a couple of tickets left for tomorrow night's event with Nell Stevens & Olivia Laing!

They'll be discussing Nell's new novel of art, authenticity and desire THE ORIGINAL

Wed 18 June at 7pm – last chance for tickets: lrb.me/063

Thanks so much for reading!

UK publication of @nellstevens.bsky.social's second novel THE ORIGINAL is on the horizon (Scribner, 19 June), as witnessed by this signing of 400 copies for independent publishers.

www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/400-signed-copies-of-the-original-nell-stevens

Ahhh so pleased. Thank you!

Ah thanks Gary! Really hope you enjoy

Thanks so much!

A book with covers!

Lovely to read this response - thank you! Wishing you a very happy new year

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How is this a whole real book already

Finding the Words Literary Festival …

There’s two-and-a-bit hours left to outbid Stephen and name a character in my next novel literary.freedomfromtorture.org/view_lot/?id...

I have given up. I tried really hard!

Ok good to know! I’ll stick with it a bit longer

Should I persevere with this? I am finding it impenetrable but I know many people have loved it

There’s no single moment in contemporary fiction that comes close, for me, to this, from AS Byatt’s Still Life - after a shocking, sudden death, the novel turns in on itself, a sort of rupture that makes perfect sense. It’s obvious now that I should have written to her to say thank you

I recently did an interview for a US podcast and afterwards they made me record a load of extra “so…”s and “sure”s that they could add in later and it was the most awkward I’ve felt in a long time

Hilary Mantel. “As a novelist, I ask if people cry for just one reason.”