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Madeleine Watts

@madeleine_watts

Writer. Novels ELEGY, SOUTHWEST ( 2025) and THE INLAND SEA (2021). Work in @believermag, @Harpers, @HEAT_journal, @lithub. Perpetual Australian.

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Simon & Schuster (@simonbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ELEGY, SOUTHWEST by Madeleine Watts explores the breakdown of a marriage during a two-week road trip. Follow Lewis and Eloise's journey across the American southwest, exploring the landscapes that bear witness to the end of their relationship. simonandschuster.com/p/elegysouthwe…

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ā€œAfterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks.ā€ Read from Madeleine Watts’s novel, Elegy, Southwest. lithub.com/elegy-southwest

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Fantastic reflection by ⁦Madeleine Watts⁩ on Sebald’s Rings of Saturn as an inspiration for her fine new novel Elegy, Southwest lithub.com/wg-sebalds-rin…

Beyond The Zero Podcast (@beyondzeropod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really looking forward to this from Madeleine Watts Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread Source: The Guardian search.app/hkDM

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Lovely @readingsbooks notice (by head buyer Alison Huber) for Madeleine Watts's Elegy Southwest: "...sad and funny, grand and intimate, informed and inquisitive, and above all, a beautiful piece of writing." readings.com.au/product/978176…

The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand (@conversationedu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse. Uni of Adelaide theconversation.com/uncertainties-…

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i loved the inland sea and how it spoke about how it felt to be a young woman not just at a time of climate crisis, but at a time of heightened media coverage of violence against women. super excited for elegy, southwest: theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

Madeleine Watts (@madeleine_watts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Elegy, Southwest is out in the UK today! Very grateful to everyone at Pushkin Press for guiding it into the world. I will be in London next week to launch the book at Daunt Hampstead on the 19th, and would love to see you there.

Elegy, Southwest is out in the UK today! Very grateful to everyone at <a href="/PushkinPress/">Pushkin Press</a> for guiding it into the world. I will be in London next week to launch the book at Daunt Hampstead on the 19th, and would love to see you there.
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Against a backdrop of climate change, Madeleine Watts' ā€˜Elegy, Southwest’ (Pushkin Press) is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/elegy-…

Against a backdrop of climate change, <a href="/madeleine_watts/">Madeleine Watts</a>' ā€˜Elegy, Southwest’ (<a href="/PushkinPress/">Pushkin Press</a>) is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/elegy-…
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Melbourne! This Thursday evening I will be launching Elegy, Southwest in Australia at Readings Emporium with Katherine Brabon. It would be lovely to see you there. Registration here: readings.com.au/events/book-la…

Melbourne! This Thursday evening I will be launching Elegy, Southwest in Australia at <a href="/ReadingsBooks/">Readings</a>  Emporium with <a href="/katherinebrabon/">Katherine Brabon</a>. It would be lovely to see you there. Registration here:

readings.com.au/events/book-la…
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ā€œBoth our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebodyā€: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts (Madeleine Watts) minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/bot…

Miriam Balanescu (@balanescumiriam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

it was genuinely hard to express just how brilliant Madeleine Watts’ second novel Elegy, Southwest is. I reviewed it for FT Weekend, out tomorrow. ft.com/content/8ec8fc…

Chloƫ Ashby (@chloelashby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I reviewed (and loved) Madeleine Watts’ second novel, Elegy, Southwest, which is thoughtful and quietly compelling, and conjures the familiar sense of steadily trundling towards disaster…. In this week’s The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/the-ro…

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Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with Alex Wells about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with Alex Wells about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.