# Laura Beatty
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Laura Mary Catherine Beatty (née Keen; born 1 May 1963) is a writer awarded the Authors' Club First Novel Award for her 2008 novel Pollard, also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.She has also written two biographies, the first about Lillie Langtry which contained the first publication of correspondence between Lillie and her lover Arthur Jones.
== Personal life ==
She is the daughter of Charles Keen and Lady Priscilla Mary Rose Curzon, eldest daughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. Her brother is actor Will Keen (father of actress Dafne Keen) and her sister is poet Alice Oswald.
The Nobody Zone: 05 - Another Side
As Kieran Kelly descended into a life of murder and violence, he displayed a number of sides to his character. But what were they, and what do they tell us about him?
The Nobody Zone is a collaboration between RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear productions in Denmark.
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The Nobody Zone: 04 - True Confessions
The tape. In a smoke filled interview room in Clapham Police Station, Kieran Patrick Kelly confesses to multiple murders. Dates, times, locations. Should we believe everything he's saying?
The Nobody Zone is a collaboration between RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear productions in D…
The Nobody Zone: 06 - Bringing it all back home
As we bring the series to a close, what stories lie buried in Kieran Kelly’s home town of Rathdowney? Have we reached the end of the line?
The Nobody Zone is a collaboration between RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear productions in Denmark.
For more, visit rte.ie/thenobodyzone
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The Nobody Zone: 02 - A Hidden Truth?
In 2015, amidst claims by a retired police officer of mass murder and cover up, the Police reopen the case files of Kieran Patrick Kelly. But is the new evidence to be trusted? Episode 2 of 6. Released weekly.
The Nobody Zone is a collaboration between RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third…
Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
Wonder at the natural world has inspired people and fuelled curiosity for millennia. The ancient Greek Theophrastus had interests that spread far and wide, from biology and physics to ethics and metaphysics. But although he was Aristotle’s friend and collaborator, and his notes on botany inspired L…
Laura Beatty: Looking for Theophrastus
Laura Beatty could turn straw into gold. In Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher, she describes chancing across the writings of a rather obscure Greek philosopher, and the wonders and illuminations that followed. She speaks to Johnny about her pursuit of this forgotten …
Ep 11: Laura Beatty
Author Laura Beatty discusses her book, Looking for Theophrastus, delving into Greece, the interconnectedness of space and time, the concept of wonder, and why we should care about someone who lived 2,400 years ago.
Laura Beatty & Edmund de Waal: Pear Trees
Pear Trees (Hazel Press) is a short story by Laura Beatty, the Ondaatje Prize-shortlisted novelist and biographer. Set in an Albanian mountain village, Pear Trees blends folklore and ecology to pose the largest of questions about our relationship with the living world.
Beatty was joined in convers…
Review Show: Rose Tremain’s The Housekeeper, inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Robbie Collin and Sarah Crompton join Samira Ahmed to review:
Rose Tremain’s new book, The Housekeeper, which imagines how Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel, Rebecca, came to be written.
Queen at Sea, a film starring Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, which takes on the moral quandaries that occur…
Two Minutes to Midnight by Laura Beatty
‘Two Minutes to Midnight’ by Laura Beatty is the final story in contention for the 2026 BBC National Short Story Award with the University of Cambridge. Sian Thomas reads.
A doctor grieves for her husband and tries to understand the damage being done to the natural world as human intervention conti…
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