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Alice McVeigh
Goodreads Author
Born
in Seoul, South Korea, Korea, Republic of
Website
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Genre
Influences
Tolkien, Austen, Mantel
Member Since
August 2014
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Darcy
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Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel
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2021
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5 editions
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Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation
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2022
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2 editions
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Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
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Capturing Mr Darcy: a Pride and Prejudice short story
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While the Music Lasts
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published
1995
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4 editions
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Ghost Music
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published
1997
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4 editions
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A Highbury Christmas
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All Risks Musical: An Irreverent Guide to the Music Profession
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2002
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Beating Time
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To: READERS OF WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS
STOP!!!! Do NOT PASS GO!!!!! Do not collect £200!!!!!!
Unless you are one of the rare people to have bought this from www.alicemcveigh.com you are reading the wrong book!!!!!
The cover displayed here at Goodreads is the new edition, substantially revised and extended and VERY much better than the original, which was published by Orion in the early medieval period (the 1990s).
The new edition was ru Read more of this blog post »
Unless you are one of the rare people to have bought this from www.alicemcveigh.com you are reading the wrong book!!!!!
The cover displayed here at Goodreads is the new edition, substantially revised and extended and VERY much better than the original, which was published by Orion in the early medieval period (the 1990s).
The new edition was ru Read more of this blog post »
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Alice McVeigh
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Tammy Buchli's review
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Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice:
"I am very fond of short stories, of Jane Austen variations featuring Austen’s more obscure and ridiculous characters, and of Alice McVeigh’s work. So, I started this book with every expectation of loving it and I was not disappointed. What a charmer."
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Alice McVeigh
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Caroline Palmer's review
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Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice:
"Absolutely Amazing short stories that fill in the background for my favorite Jane Austen novels! Even an epilogue to the novel Longbourn makes an appearance, albeit historically inaccurate."
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Alice McVeigh
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Karen's review
of
Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice:
"I loved this collection of delightfully written “behind-the-scenes” stories, told in very Austenesque fashion, from the perspective of different characters than Jane Austen wrote about. Alice McVeigh’s dialogues add a fascinating depth to some well-l"
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Alice McVeigh
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Debbie’s review
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Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
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Hi Debbie, I can't thank you enough for such a kind review. So much so that I'm asking permission to use your brilliant summations of each story, for
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Thanks... I'm VERY grateful!!! The sequel is called Ghost Music. It, too, was published originally in the 1990s by Orion Publishing, but eventually dr
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In fact, this is the second edition of my While the Music Lasts, which was originally published by Orion in 1994... BEFORE Blair published Mozart in t
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Hi, I'm about to publish a volume of short stories for the first time on Amazon. I understand that VERY little of the book is allowed to be available
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PS The sequel, also published by Orion/Hachette twenty years ago, also needs updating. (I mean, the COVER needs updating... I have already updated the
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“I composed a little poem, just now. I do not like Miss Bennet, E. I do not think that she likes me. I wish that she would go away And take her sister Jane today. (There! How accomplished is that?) ⸎”
― Capturing Mr Darcy: a Pride and Prejudice short story
― Capturing Mr Darcy: a Pride and Prejudice short story
“I composed a little poem, just now. I do not like Miss Bennet, E. I do not think that she likes me. I wish that she would go away And take her sister Jane today. (There! How accomplished is that?) ⸎ No, I do”
― Capturing Mr Darcy: a Pride and Prejudice short story
― Capturing Mr Darcy: a Pride and Prejudice short story
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“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them. It was really nice sightseeing, if you know what I mean. In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them. When they got out of school and college, I mean. You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring— But I have to be careful about that. I mean about calling certain guys bores. I don't understand boring guys. I really don't.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Last Star Standing (Feb. 18, 2021)
It's set in the near future - 2094 - and follows an alien invasion - so it HAS to be marketed as science fiction - but it's really about the narrator's tough, terrifying, but ultimately life-affirming personal journey.
The book hit me, about three years ago, when I was meditating. This is something I do very badly! - but I have had amazing experiences - swirling colours, images - and, in this case, a character.
I found myself looking down, from the Earth's surface, about a hundred metres, down a metallic shaft, at a young man imprisoned in a metal chair.
It was Aiden, my narrator, and - from that bizarre introduction - he wouldn't leave me alone.
With sinking heart I realised that I was being asked to write - at least technically - science fiction, of which I'd read exactly three - 1984, Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and The Handmaid's Tale.
The idea was crazy and I fought it tooth and nail.
But Aiden fought back. He wanted his book to happen. He wanted to BE.
And - long story short - he won! It's jst been published.
If you read it, I hope you enjoy it.
If you enjoy it, I hope you review it.
And I very, VERY much hope, in these tough times, it really does offer a little escape!
Spaulding Taylor”
― Last Star Standing
It's set in the near future - 2094 - and follows an alien invasion - so it HAS to be marketed as science fiction - but it's really about the narrator's tough, terrifying, but ultimately life-affirming personal journey.
The book hit me, about three years ago, when I was meditating. This is something I do very badly! - but I have had amazing experiences - swirling colours, images - and, in this case, a character.
I found myself looking down, from the Earth's surface, about a hundred metres, down a metallic shaft, at a young man imprisoned in a metal chair.
It was Aiden, my narrator, and - from that bizarre introduction - he wouldn't leave me alone.
With sinking heart I realised that I was being asked to write - at least technically - science fiction, of which I'd read exactly three - 1984, Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and The Handmaid's Tale.
The idea was crazy and I fought it tooth and nail.
But Aiden fought back. He wanted his book to happen. He wanted to BE.
And - long story short - he won! It's jst been published.
If you read it, I hope you enjoy it.
If you enjoy it, I hope you review it.
And I very, VERY much hope, in these tough times, it really does offer a little escape!
Spaulding Taylor”
― Last Star Standing
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