Auriel Roe (author)

Writer of humorous novels often set in schools.

Auriel roe

My debut novel, Blindefellows, was #1 in humour in Amazon US, UK and Canada last November making me - albeit briefly - the funniest person in the English-speaking world.  Hoping to attain that accolade again with novel #2, Let The Swine Go Forth. In the early part of my career I was a teacher of art, drama and English.  Somehow, this alchemic mix of subjects lead me to a writing career.  It wasn't planned, I simply woke up with a story in my head which was subsequently shortlisted in a major UK short story competition.  This short story then morphed into a novel, with said short story becoming the last chapter.  I am also an artist with a couple of shortlisted Royal Academy pieces.  Shortlisting is a bit of a theme here and I feel honoured to have got that far but to win, ah, to win...



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Books:

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A chronicle of life in a British private school over forty years
International school in a totalitarian state? What can possibly go wrong?


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