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MJ Hyland

MJ Hyland is an award-winning novelist. Her books include How Light Gets In, the 2006 Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down and This is How.
 
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The Nation Reviewed

London Calling: The Ledbury

MJ Hyland

On 8 August, during the London riots, Brett Graham’s restaurant, The Ledbury, was invaded by looters. “There were 30 of them and they...

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Arts & Letters

Shipped Down Under: Jim Loach’s 'Oranges and Sunshine' and Mark Lewis’ 'Cane Toads: The Conquest'

MJ Hyland

In the late 1980s, Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys investigated the postwar deportation of care-home children from England to...

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Noted

'Cloudstreet' By Matthew Saville

MJ Hyland

Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is a compassionate masterpiece, which is to Australians what George Orwell’s 1984 is to the English and Harper Lee...

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First-Class Passage

MJ Hyland

UPDATE: A version of this piece by MJ Hyland, shortlisted for a BBC National Short Story award.*It’s not even eight o’clock and...

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MJ Hyland in conversation with Michael Williams. Melbourne Writers Festival

Part 1 | Part 2M.J. Hyland returns to Melbourne and the Melbourne Writers Festival with her new novel This is How under her arm. In...

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Fumigation in London & Amsterdam

MJ Hyland

It was a warm Tuesday morning, the beginning of my second week in Bloomsbury, London, and I was smoking a cigarette on the stone steps of...

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