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4th in the UK for Creative Writing (Complete University Guide 2024)

 Royal Holloway's Creative Writing Department has been ranked 4th in the UK by the Complete University Guide. It was also 2nd in the UK for graduate prospects in Creative Writing. 

Professor Adam Roberts publishes The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

 A gothic tale of murder and corruption by our Head of Department! In the 1840s, railway Baron Sir Martin Malprelate has been laying waste to the warren of Camden; buying up houses and clearing streets for his new railway line linking King’s Cross with the prosperous town of Middlemarch. He stands to make his fortune ever more vast and to earn the loathing of all who attempt to stand up to him. Little wonder, then, that he meets a violent end on a foggy street after walking out of a particularly bitter meeting with outraged residents facing eviction. But the cause of his death causes more wonder....

Department of English Summer Reading Lists

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