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New adaptation of The Company of Wolves to headline New Vic 2024 Season

New adaptation of The Company of Wolves to headline New Vic 2024 Season

New Vic Artistic Director Theresa Heskins and Upswing Artistic Director Vicki Amedume follow up their collaboration on Olivier award-winning The ...
Book of a lifetime: Shaking a Leg

Book of a lifetime: Shaking a Leg

Susannah Clapp warmly remembers her wild and imperious friend through her collected journalism – struck by its forthrightness, imagination, unpredictability, ...
Marquis de Sade, a feminist icon?

Marquis de Sade, a feminist icon?

Novelist Angela Carter’s surprising take on a notorious writer (from Scroll.in) Social constructs and questions of control are preoccupations the ...
Third Ear - Angela Carter

Third Ear – Angela Carter

Paul Bailey introduces his interview with Angela Carter, which was recorded shortly before her death. In this lively conversation, Carter ...
Nights at the Circus Online Exhibition

Nights at the Circus Online Exhibition

Angela Carter’s novel Nights at the Circus formed the point of departure for Eileen Cooper’s forthcoming exhibition at Sims Reed ...
Illustrated edition of Nights at the Circus

Illustrated edition of Nights at the Circus

The Folio Society are issuing a lavish, illustrated edition of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus, with dazzling artwork by ...
Eileen Cooper on illustrating Angela Carter

Eileen Cooper on illustrating Angela Carter

The acclaimed British artist talks illustrating her first novel in a Creative Boom exclusive, as The Folio Society releases a ...
Fairy Tale Day 2021: short stories from Grimm to Angela Carter

Fairy Tale Day 2021: short stories from Grimm to Angela Carter

Delve back into your childhood or discover a brand-new book with our selection of tomes (from the Independent) Whether it ...
Why we are living in 'Gothic times'

Why we are living in ‘Gothic times’

"We live in Gothic times," declared Angela Carter back in 1974. It's a theme Carlos Ruiz Zafón took up several ...
The much-missed vitality of Angela Carter

The much-missed vitality of Angela Carter

Alice Vincent examines the author's wild and tremendous legacy for Penguin Books This week, Angela Carter would have turned 80 ...
The Little Peach

The Little Peach

(from The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon) Angela Carter and her husband, Paul, flew to New York on ...
"The Bloody Chamber"  makes 100 Best Horror Books of All Time

“The Bloody Chamber” makes 100 Best Horror Books of All Time

Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber is ranked number 25 in Reedsy's 100 Best Horror Books of All Time "Angela Carter is ...
Emma Rice brings "Wise Children" to Manchester.

Emma Rice brings “Wise Children” to Manchester.

Acclaimed director, Emma Rice is bringing her adaptation of Angela Carter's 1991 novel to Manchester. Wise Children is the first ...
‘The Sadeian Woman’: How Angela Carter empowered her readers to embrace sexual liberation

‘The Sadeian Woman’: How Angela Carter empowered her readers to embrace sexual liberation

The influence of the British author’s feminist reframing of pornography and women is demonstrated in a letter by performer and ...
Sarah Waters: ‘Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber was like nothing I’d read before’

Sarah Waters: ‘Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber was like nothing I’d read before’

The author on discovering Carter’s fairytales as a teenager… from The Guardian The book that changed my life Angela Carter’s collection ...