Shelley Weiner was born in South Africa and worked as a journalist, PR writer and editor in a publishing house before turning to fiction. Her published novels include A Sisters’ Tale, The Last Honeymoon, The Joker, and Arnost. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies including Winter’s Tales, The Slow Mirror, Valentine’s Day, Mordecai’s First Brush With Love, and on BBC Radio 4. Shelley is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, with a placement at Westminster University. She currently teaches novel-writing on the Anglia Ruskin Creative Writing MA and, among other institutions, has taught fiction at Birkbeck College as well as for the Open University, the Taliesin Trust, the British Council in Israel, and Durham University Summer School. Scores of new writers, several of them now published, have emerged from her “First Novel” workshops held in Camden Town, Wales and in her Highgate kitchen.

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