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Lynn Michell

My seventeen books cross-cross genres, a publisher’s nightmare. They include Write From the Start, a writing scheme for primary schools, Shattered:Life with ME, a book recording the experiences of thirty people with severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and the authorised biography of super-realist painter Rosa Branson, and four novels. My debut novel, White Lies, set in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, was runner-up twice for the Robert Louis Stevenson award. This was followed by Run, Alice, RunThe Red Beach Hut and the climate conscious the water all around us. I am the director of Linen Press which I founded in Edinburgh eighteen years ago.

I have recently moved, after twelve years in southern France, to a remote croft in the Western Isles. I live in a caravan with views of sea and islands, and look after brown and black sheep.

Lynn’s books

Fiction

1993 Letters To My Semi-Detached Son: A Mother’s Story. The Women’s Press.

2011 White Lies. Linen Press.

2015 Run Alice, Run. Linen Press.

2017 The Red Beach Hut. Linen Press.

2023  the water all around us. Linen Press.

Memoir and Biography

2013 Shooting Stars Are The Flying Fish Of The Night. Lynn Michell & Stefan Gregory. Linen Press

‘We crossed the Atlantic in a blue boat called Scarlet.’

2021 Rosa Branson: A Portrait. Linen press

Non-Fiction

1987-1991 Write From The Start. Oliver & Boyd. Six illustrated pupils’ books and two teachers’ books to help children become competent writers. The books break away from traditional, narrow teaching methods and redefine writing as everything from a list to a letter to a project. The purpose is to make writing a varied challenge – and fun.

1990 Growing Up in Smoke. Pluto Press. A first account of children as passive smokers.

2003 Shattered: Life With ME. HarperCollins.

Anthologies

1997 A Stranger At My Table: Mothering Adolescents. (Ed) The Women’s Press.

2005 Wild On Her Blue Days. (Ed). AmberSand Press. An anthology of new writing.

2023  Tabua Rasa: Poetry by Women

Mission Statement

Founded in 2005, Linen Press is the only UK-wide feminist independent publisher.
At a time when female autonomy and rights are under threat, our books are important for the recognition and empowerment of the female experience.
We rejoice in the strength and originality of female and non-binary creative voices and champion those who are underrepresented and marginalised.
The collective background of our writers is a patchwork of cultures, countries, ages and writing styles as we share stories that speak to women across barriers and boundaries.

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