Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig (born 1959) is a British novelist. Craig studied at Bedales School and Cambridge and works as a journalist. She is married with two children and lives in London.

Craig has so far published a cycle of five novels which deal with contemporary British society, often in a concise acerbic satirical manner. Her approach to writing fiction has been influenced by, and compared to that of, Anthony Trollope Angela Carter and Charles Dickens. Her novel A Vicious Circle was originally contracted to be published by Hamish Hamilton, but was cancelled when its proof copy received a libel threat from David Sexton, a literary critic and former boyfriend of Craig's at Cambridge, fifteen years previously. The novel was promptly bought by 4th Estate and published three months later. Although each novel can be read separately, they are linked to each other by common characters. Usually, Craig takes a minor character and makes him or her the protagonist of her next work.

Craig is particularly interested in children's fiction, and was one of the first critics to praise JK Rowling and Philip Pullman in The New Statesman. She is currently the children's critic for The Times.

* "Foreign Bodies" (1990)
* "A Private Place" (1991)
* "A Vicious Circle" (1996)
* "In a Dark Wood" (2000)
* "Love in Idleness" (2003)

External links

* [http://www.amandacraig.com Amanda Craig's official site]