Mavis Cheek

Mavis Cheek

Author

Mavis Cheek began her working life at sixteen in the contemporary art world working with such artists as David Hockney, Bridget Riley and Patrick Caulfield.  Much of this understanding of art colours her writing.  She took her degree at the grand age of twenty eight after which she had her daughter, with the artist Basil Beattie.  She then decided to write and her first novel, Pause Between Acts won the SHE/John Menzies First Novel prize.  She has been called “Jane Austen in Modern Dress” and “The novelist who takes her scalpel to the discreet lack of charms of the bourgeosie”  She has written for radio, short story collections and has published fifteen novels in all – with Faber & Faber, Hamish Hamilton and Hutchinson.  The Observer said of her, ‘Cheek is a comic writer who is honourably fulfilling her contract to amuse…But she is also a proper writer and rage, passion and the authentic yowl of pain lies beneath her jolly prose.’

Mavis teaches for the Arvon Foundation, at Stratford Literature Festival (Guardian Masterclass) and at Ty Newydd, the Welsh Literature Centre.  She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.  She enjoys speaking at Literature Festivals and all other places where people are interested in writers and what makes them tick.

She has written fifteen novels in all, to reviewers’ acclaim and is currently working on her sixteenth novel.  Currently she lives in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside but is planning to move back to London – eventually.

Mavis Cheek @mavischeekbooks

He’s taking the public for fools. Being an MP isn’t a second job. It is the job. https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics/status/1596576194287128576

IMPORTANT: ASDA have announced that their own in-store cafés will be offering the over 60’s hot soup, a roll and unlimited hot drinks for £1 this November and December to help them keep warm this winter. Spread the word.

A man wanting to jump off a bridge in London was talked down by strangers who held him for an hour until help arrived. Look at that grip. Look at the care, compassion, selflessness, and determination shown by strangers to a hurting human being.

We need more of this in the world.

We have a corrupt government. Wake up https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1575741198567763968

Has he been positively vetted? Is he cleared to see classified material? https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1571183835609534466

I wonder if Boris will ask Lord Brownlow to pay his fine(s).

Just back from Leeds saying goodbye to Gerald - my first boyfriend - in a bittersweet and celebratory service overseen by his sister, a Humanist Minister,and one of my oldest friends. Learned so much more about him than either of us knew. A rich, happy life.

We start rehearsals tomorrow. Only nearly two years late! Here we go @BDWplay @ThatTimWalker @RoseUnwin @RiversideLondon

Fab article about @HelenLederer's #comedywomeninprint prize winner Jesse Sutanto @thewritinghippo and her book #DialAForAunties - "charming, refreshing and delightfully subversive".

https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/2021-comedy-women-in-print-prize-jesse-sutanto-wins-for-comedy-caper-dial-a-for-aunties-1289937

#cwip #cwip2021 #cwipprize #wittywomen #literaryprize #womenauthors

if there's a heaven it may be the room full of funny women I was in last night @CWIPprize, including Jilly Cooper, Meera Syal, Mel Giedroyc, @HelenLederer, celebrating comedy writers published + unpublished. We @theipaper (thanks to @carsonsarah) support it. Long may it live!

John Hegley's Drawings of Dromedaries (and Other Creatures) - Summerhall, Edinburgh this will be a nice thing if you are there https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/drawings-of-dromedaries-and-other-creatures/2021-08-13/

So so proud, congratulations everyone ❤ #cwip https://twitter.com/CWIPprize/status/1417756286654066689

"We have to cut back on foreign aid to look after our own" say Tories who won't give nurses a real-term pay rise, feed hungry kids in the UK or pay for them to catch up on their education.

Can I recommend a book, please? Just picked up off the table at Foyles. One of those books you long to get back to bed at night for. 'Our Fathers' by Rebecca Wait. No idea who she is or what else she does but I so hope she goes on writing.

@mavischeekbooks https://twitter.com/artistholbein/status/1400894914624372743

People are booking free tickets for Nigel Farage’s event and are planning not to show up

Please share the link to stop these irresponsible people spoiling a lovely evening

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Please sign & RT this petition, it means a lot to me: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-60-card-and-freedom-pass?share=8eb748ef-d43f-4387-8053-d4a5a63e094e&source=twitter-share-email-button&time=1616499899&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter via @38_degrees