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In a profile sure to incense quite a few people, Jackie McGlone describes author Louise Bagshawe, a woman who says she writes “trashy novels”, is unabashedly conservative (not that there’s anything wrong with that), and is apparently not ashamed to admit that she founded the Rock Society at Oxford only so she could use the school’s clout to “make contacts in the record business” (now that‘s wrong.) Here’s Bagshawe in her own words:
But being a trashy novelist is not exactly work, whether you’re doing Chick-Lit or Glam-Style, another of the genres in which I write. I bang out some words for about two or three hours a day; then I tidy up before Caius – we named him after Julius Caesar because it goes pretty well with my husband’s family name, LoCicero – comes home from nursery school.
Bagshawe also believes the Tory Party needs more “articulate women like [her]”.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.