Authors angry after Susan Hill accuses bookshop of anti-Trump censorship

The novelist pulled out of an event at the Book Hive in Norwich because of its giveaway of books promoting resistance, prompting consternation from her peers

Authors including Joanne Harris, Patrick Ness and Sarah Perry have leaped to the defence of a Norwich bookseller after Susan Hill launched an extraordinary attack on it for “opposing” US president Donald Trump.

In an article pubished in the Spectator, The Woman in Black writer said she had cancelled an event to promote her latest novel, From the Heart, after discovering the shop would be giving away copies of novels by writers opposed to Trump.

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