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Alice Thomas Ellis

Alice Thomas Ellis: Alice Thomas Ellis (1932-2005) was one of Britain's most widely admired writers. Her dozen novels include The 27th Kingdom , which was nominated for a Booker Prize, and The Inn at the Edge of the World , which won the 1991 Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction. She also published many essays and edited books by Penelope Fitzgerald and Beryl Bainbridge. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.