Elizabeth Baines

• May-1988
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• Oct-2007
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These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it - the boy caught between divorced parents, the arts worker conman, the avenging wife. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always surprising: for it's a slippery ...

• Nov-2009
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<p>Can we believe in magic and spells? Can we put our faith in science?</p><p>A young mother married to a scientist fears for her children's safety as the natural world around her becomes ever more uncertain. Until, that is, she mee...

• Dec-2013
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<p>Tucked up on the ward and secure in the latest technology, Zelda is about to give birth to her baby. But things don't go to plan, and as her labour progresses and the drugs take over, Zelda enters a surreal world. Here, past and present beco...

• Aug-2015
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Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize What if, in a parallel universe, you made a different choice of lover? What if you've spent your whole life with entirely the wrong idea about your own sister? What do you do if you're trapped in a...

• Nov-2020
• / Literary
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Astral Travel, about a charismatic but troubled Irishman and his effect on his family, explores the way that the secrets forged by cultural, religious and sexual prejudice can reverberate down the generations. It's also about telling stories, and...