Candida Clark is the author of six novels: The Last Look (1998), The Constant Eye (2000), The Mariner’s Star (2002), Ghost Music (2003), A House of Light (2005), and The Chase (2006). She has also written film-scripts, short stories, poetry and criticism.

Recent articles

In Christmas week, a displaced New York poet with an elusive past is asked to give permission for a biography – and suddenly feels everything, life and work entire, at stake. An exclusive story by acclaimed novelist Candida Clark.

Across a dozen years, the experience of hearing Jacques Derrida lecture remains for Candida Clark an indelible invitation to a new way of seeing.

From the South China Sea to Florida's South Beach; lobsters and sharks; icebergs, canals and coral reefs - openDemocracy's “Shorelines” project has offered a lyrical combination of voice, image and narrative. Now, as it reaches the shore's limit, get ready for the big swell. We present an exclusive compilation: the sound of the sea and a pick of some of our best images.

“Even in his sleep he longed for the ocean”. On the edge of England’s wild North Yorkshire coast, openDemocracy crosses generations in this exclusive of sound, photography and storytelling. Hear Candida Clark read from her acclaimed novel of grief and redemption, “The Mariner’s Star”, while her mother, Sally Heywood, evokes the experience of a once-vibrant fishing community and remembers “the last of the last”.

Candida Clark introduces Jeff Nuttall, Ann Drysdale recalls an extraordinary life-force who left his subterranean mark on a generation of free spirits in post-1960s Britain, and - alongside two Jeff Nuttall poems - Adam Horovitz celebrates him in verse from a Welsh mountain graveside.