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Listen to this week's Book at Bedtime- "The Green & The Black" - on BBC Radio 4

THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

An unforgettable novel about kindness and its power to change lives

REVIEWS​

​"This is a book of such tenderness, full of pain, grief and despair and

yet playful and joyful at the same time. Kit de Waal has an uncanny

ability to create vivid characters with such empathy that I want to reach

into the pages to hug them. I truly loved this book."

Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond

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"What a wonderful novel, bursting with life. Kit de Waal is a writer

who knows all the secret longings of the human heart ."

Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Ordinary Time

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"Beautiful. De Waal has the power to astound, to lift and console,

to make life with her sentences." 

Donal Ryan, author of The Queen of Dirt Island

Available April 10, 2025 

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Women's Prize for Fiction 2025

The judging panel is chaired by author Kit de Waal.

She is joined by:

Novelist, journalist Diana Evans

Author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon

Magazine editor, Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph;

Musician and composer Amelia Warner.

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The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world. 2025 celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, sponsored by Audible and Baileys.

(L-R) Bryony Gordon, Amelia Warner, Diana Evans, Kit de Waal, Deborah Joseph

LATEST
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The Green & The Black is about the changing face of modern Ireland, as told through multiple generations of one family
​Discussing the power of diverse voices with  Iole Dexter. â€‹
Kit is now represented by Peter Strauss at London-based literary
agency RCW.  Contact details are on the contact page and in the footer.
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INTERVIEWS & CONVERSATIONS
WATCH
Making Dad's Fruitcake with
Dean O'Loughlin. For Headline Books
LISTEN

Penguin Podcast, Kit de Waal with Katy Brand (32 min)

Literary Salon with Damian Barr (44 min)

How to Fail with Elizabeth Day (58 min)

READ

The Times Literary Supplement Twenty Questions 

The Aesthetic Memoir with Lily Dunn

The Class Work Project  with Shan Stephens

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READS

My Irish grandmother...

Article from The Irish Times

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Article:  My Favourite   

Books Ireland Magazine

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Exterior Paint  

A short story  Resistance.

 

I Am the Painter's Daughter  

​Flash Fiction.

OTHER PUBLISHED WORK

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Supporting Cast

Capturing the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives.

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My Name Is Leon

Best selling debut novel.

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The Trick to Time

"Heroically ordinary."

- Financial Times

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Common People

A valuable anthology of working-class writers. 

COLLABORATIONS & OTHER WORK

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Co-founder

Primadonna Festival

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Member

The Black Writers' Guild

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Writer in Residence

University of Leicester

“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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