POLLY CLARK

Featured November 6, 2020

TIGER the Podcast Episode Two

Episode Two of the Tiger Podcast, features a rare interview with one of the Udeghe people, indigenous to the Russian Far East. Formerly nomadic, now living as Russians do in villages, the tribe’s survival is threatened by intermarriage with Russians, the loss of language, unemployment and the suppression of the practice of Shamanism as a…

Featured August 8, 2020

Tiger Trailer

Publication day for the UK paperback of TIGER is November 12th 2020! Here is trailer to whet your appetite. TIGER is also published in Germany by Eisele Verlag on November 2nd. Watch this space for news of readings in Germany and my participation in the European Literature Festival in Austria 19-22 November.

Featured March 14, 2020

Book Festival Aye Write is cancelled… here’s a short film for those who wanted to hear about Tiger.

Glasgow’s Book Festival Aye Wright has cancelled because of the corona virus. Leila Aboulela, author of Bird Summons, and I had a great event planned! Her website is here. I look forward to reading events as they are the main way that authors have the chance to talk about their books, why they went to…

Featured March 9, 2019

Letter to the reader of Tiger

When you have read Tiger, you will know something of how to track and survive in the wilderness. Most of all I hope you experience the tiger as it truly is and love it as I do.

Featured March 9, 2019

TIGER reviews

“Fierce, elegant, and compelling as the tiger itself, TIGER is less a novel than the very force of nature caught in fiction. Grabbed me by the imagination and carried me into the wilds of animal and human nature” Laline Paull, author of The Bees

November 19, 2020

Tigers, bears and breakfast with Dan Richards and Polly Clark

** LIVE ON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 8.30AM UK TIME (9.30am CET) ** Escape lockdown and morning news and be transported to wild places over a coffee with Dan Richards and Polly Clark. We will be talking about wilderness, and the wild journeys we have made, and our books TIGER and OUTPOST. Now available on YouTube:…

November 9, 2020

Read All About It Podcast – Polly Clark on five life changing books

Click HERE to listen. In this podcast series Paul Cuddihy talks to authors about five books chosen in response to a series of questions. An interesting discussion ensues, and I discover here that the books I chose have had effects long into my life. Totally alarmed to discover on the show that not every 6…

September 22, 2020

TIGER the Podcast Episode One

In late 2017 I travelled from Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland to the frozen forests of the Russian Far East in order to track Amur (Siberian) tigers in the wild. This formed part of my research for my novel TIGER, which is partly set in the Russian taiga as it is known. While…

October 26, 2019

Tiger shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2019

The Saltire Literary Awards are Scotland’s national book awards, and I’m excited and honoured that TIGER has been shortlisted for the Fiction Book of the Year 2019. Here is the full shortlist: TIGER by Polly ClarkDUCKS, NEWBURYPORT by Lucy EllmanNINA X by Ewan MorrisonBIRD SUMMONS by Leila AboulelahCOIG DUILLEAGAN NA SEAMRAIG (Five Leaves Of The…

August 1, 2019

COMING IN AUGUST: TIGER in Edinburgh and Glasgow

Edinburgh Book Festival Selva Almada and Polly Clark chaired by Jenny Brown STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD The best novels conjure mental images that we’re unlikely to see in reality. Selva Almada’s debut The Wind That Lays Waste evokes the squat trees, sweat-stained shirts and broken-down cars of rural Argentina. Set on…

April 18, 2019

TIGERS are coming to a place near you!

TIGER is published May 2nd 2019. All these launch events are open to the public. Please come to one — or more! They are all different. Reserve your place via the link with each event, or for queries contact Elizabeth Ana: Elizabeth.ana@quercusbooks.co.uk APRIL 30th. 7pm. LOMOND SCHOOL, HELENSBURGHThis is TIGER’s first experience of the world…