Richard Beard, writer, author, novelist, Sad Little Men, The Day That Went Missing, Acts of the Assassins, Becoming Drusilla, Manly Pursuits, UKRichard Beard, writer, author, novelist, Sad Little Men, The Day That Went Missing, Acts of the Assassins, Becoming Drusilla, Manly Pursuits, UKwriterRichardBeard

Richard Beard’s six novels include Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones and Damascus, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In the UK he has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His novel Acts of the Assassins was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, for books that ‘extend the possibilities of the novel form’. He is also the author of five works of narrative non-fiction, including his rugby memoir Muddied Oafs. The Day That Went Missing was shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and won the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography.  In the US the book was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. His latest memoir/polemic is Sad Little Men, about private schools in Britain, which was a book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer.

Inspired Minds interview

In the latest episode of Rathbones Inspired Minds, Daniel Norcross speaks to author Richard Beard. [...]

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BBC Open Book – memoirs

Novelists Richard Beard and Bella Pollen discuss turning from fiction to non fiction by writing [...]

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BBC Open Book – how social media has helped deformat fiction

Richard Beard looks at the ways writers have played with visual media on the page. [...]

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BBC Open Book – the look of a book

Richard Beard explores how writers display things on the page that change how we read. [...]

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BBC Open Book – exploring the power of punctuation

Richard Beard explores how writers have used punctuation to diversify fiction. Click image to listen to [...]

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BBC Open Book – the second person ‘you’ in fiction writing

Richard Beard examines how writers address ‘you’, the reader, in fiction. Click image to listen to [...]

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BBC Open Book – why is most writing written in the third person?

Richard Beard explores how and why most fiction is written in the third person. Click [...]

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BBC Open Book – the ‘I’ viewpoint of the first person

Richard Beard guides us on the unexpected uses of the first person in fiction. Click [...]

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BBC Open Book – fictional journeys in the future tense

Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the future [...]

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BBC Open Book – the power of the present tense

Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the present [...]

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BBC Open Book – How writers explore the past tense

Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the past [...]

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Let’s Talk About Loss interview

Richard Beard is the author of The Day That Went Missing: A Family Tragedy, a [...]

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Griefcast interview

This week Cariad talks to writer Richard Beard (The Day That Went Missing, Lazarus) about [...]

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Find the Outside podcast

Tuesday and Tim are joined by Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men – Private [...]

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Church Times Book Club Podcast

The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard is the choice for this month’s Church [...]

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The Reset podcast interview with Richard Beard

Richard Beard is a successful author. He is also an ex-public schoolboy who was torn [...]

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Boarding school boys rule Britain, at what cost? | The New Statesman podcast

The New Statesman podcast Today those who attended private schools are five times more likely [...]

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Famous Writing Routines interview

Richard Beard’s six novels include Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones and Damascus, which was a [...]

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The aesthetic memoir: interview with Richard Beard

In this series of interviews, I will be talking to memoirists, both published and working [...]

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Ash Sarkar meets Richard Beard

Private Schools Are Trauma Factories | Ash Sarkar meets Richard Beard | Downstream Click image to [...]

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