John Bleasdale Writes On Film
Writers on Film
Amy Raphael on Mike Leigh
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Amy Raphael on Mike Leigh

Amy Raphael has written for all the UK broadsheets and myriad magazines, including The FaceEsquire and the Radio Times. Her first book, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock was published in 1995 and an updated version, A Seat at the Table: Women on the Frontline of Music, was published in 2019. A Game of Two Halves: Famous Football Fans Meet Their Heroes, with forewords by both Gary Lineker and Raheem Sterling, raised money for UNCHR. She co-wrote Steve Coogan’s autobiography Easily Distracted and worked with David Hare on his memoir, The Blue Touch Paper. Her second middle-grade novel, The Ship of Cloud and Stars, will be published in January 2022. Danny Boyle in Conversation with Amy Raphael was published 2013 and Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh was originally published in 2008.

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