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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 04/03/2026

NEW PODCAST! Nell Stevens in conversation with Olivia Laing about Nell's recent novel THE ORIGINAL. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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BookBrowse @bookbrowse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Original by Nell Stevens is one of our Top 20 Best Books of 2025! @nellstevens @w.w.norton

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

@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...

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

@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.”

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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…

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/06/2025

Our current bestsellers 📖⁣ lrb.me/6jh

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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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 17/06/2025

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

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Rebecca Carter @rebeccasbooks.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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

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Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

How is this a whole real book already

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Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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...

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Finding the Words Literary Festival

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Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

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

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Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

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

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Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

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

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