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Camilla Grudova

Camilla Grudova is the author of The Doll’s Alphabet, Children of Paradise and The Coiled Serpent. She was born in Canada and lives in Edinburgh. Photograph © Alice Zoo

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Doing the Work

Camilla Grudova

‘I think there should be a National Service of Hospitality. The best way to see the true face of humanity is to serve it a plate of chips.’

Camilla Grudova on bad-mannered customers.

Fiction | Issue 167 padlock
Fiction | Issue 167 padlock

Nettle Tea

Camilla Grudova

‘“Love is a matter of yeast,” he said.’

A story by Camilla Grudova.

Fiction | Issue 163 padlock
Fiction | Issue 163 padlock

Ivor

Camilla Grudova

‘We were sent to Wakeley Boarding School aged eight for Year Five and stayed on until Year Twenty.’

Fiction by Camilla Grudova.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Best Book of 1967: A Touch of Mistletoe by Barbara Comyns

Camilla Grudova

‘I bought my copy for a few dollars from a second hand bookshop so stuffy I often faint on the doorstep after browsing inside, my hands swollen and red from dust mites.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Waxy

Camilla Grudova

‘I felt intolerably miserable. There were posters everywhere reminding me I was Manless’

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