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Susan Noble

poetry and fiction



About the author

Susan Noble was born in south London in 1943 and died at the age of 31 in 1974. (See below for a short biography.) Susan’s output of fiction and poetry in the final ten years of her life was prolific and to mark the fortieth anniversary of her death, Aesop Publications are publishing in July 2014, in hardback, paperback and kindle, six volumes of her poetry and fiction.


All proceeds from the sales of Susan Noble's
books are being donated to three charities:    

  • Mind
  • Samaritans
  • Sane

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    More about the author

    Brought up in South London, Susan Noble was the second of three children. Her childhood was enriched by being part of our large and closely-knit Jewish family. Unfortunately stricken by polio (then known as infantile paralysis) in her early years, Susan went through life with a degree of physical handicap which she was to overcome with courage and determination.

    Educated at Croydon High School, Susan studied English at Somerville College, Oxford. After graduating, Susan worked in London, first at the Royal National Institute for the Blind, dictating books for transcription into Braille, and later at the National Central Library in London, where she qualified as a Chartered Librarian.

    Susan’s exceptional sensitivity was reflected in the prolific outpouring of poems that make up The Dream of Stairs, Inside the Stretch of My Heart and Before and After the Darkness. In these intense, haunting poems, she chronicles her personal response to the world around her, while vividly portraying the inner landscape of her mental and emotional struggle.

    In her two works of fiction, Drifting Between Empty Tramlines: A Chronicle of Bridchester and A Flock of Blackbirds: Selected Short Stories, she explored the social, cultural, intellectual and emotional concerns of her central characters who grapple with a range of issues from mental illness to marriage and motherhood, their relationships, affairs and break-ups, their preoccupations over work and creativity, conflicts between feminism and traditional family roles, and between academia and ‘lived experience’.

    ‘There was an intellectual and emotional intensity which burned within her and which predominantly found outward expression in her writing and when she expressed herself thus she did so with great imaginative power and also with an uncompromising honesty and integrity.’ (Rabbi Dr David Goldstein)



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  • Before and After the Darkness
    Hardback Edition


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-12-8

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 96pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    $22.99 AUD
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    Before and After the Darkness
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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-13-5

    Format: 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 104pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    Before and After the Darkness
    Kindle ebook


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    Format: Kindle ebook

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

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    Collected Poems
    Hardback Edition


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-08-1

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 538pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    Collected Poems
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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-09-8

    Format: 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 538pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    Collected Poems
    Kindle ebook


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    Format: Kindle ebook

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

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    The Dream of Stairs:
    A Poem Cycle

    Hardback Edition


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-00-5

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 234pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    The Dream of Stairs:
    A Poem Cycle

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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-01-2

    Format: 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 234pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    The Dream of Stairs:
    A Poem Cycle

    Kindle ebook


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    Format: Kindle ebook

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

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    Drifting Between Empty Tramlines
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    Genre: Fiction: literary

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    AESOP Modern, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-06-7

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 242pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    Drifting Between Empty Tramlines
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    Genre: Fiction: Literary

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    AESOP Modern, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-07-4

    Format: 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 242pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    Drifting Between Empty Tramlines
    Kindle ebook


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    Genre: Fiction: literary

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    AESOP Modern, 2014

    Format: Kindle ebook

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

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    A Flock of Blackbirds: Selected Fiction
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    Genre: Fiction: short stories

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    AESOP Modern, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-04-3

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 236pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    $24.99 USD
    €17.99 euro
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    A Flock of Blackbirds: Selected Fiction
    Paperback Edition


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    Genre: Fiction: short stories

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    AESOP Modern, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-05-0

    Format: 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 236pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    $14.99 USD
    €10.99 euro
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    A Flock of Blackbirds
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    Genre: Fiction: short storiesy

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    AESOP Modern, 2014

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    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

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    Inside the Stretch
    of My Heart

    Hardback Edition


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-02-9

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 264pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    £16.99 GBP
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    $27.99 USD
    €20.99 euro
    $30.99 AUD
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    Inside the Stretch
    of My Heart

    Paperback Edition


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    Genre: Poetry

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    AESOP Poets, 2014

    ISBN: 978-1-910301-03-6

    Format: 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Laminate cover, 264pp

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

    ORDER

    £10.99 GBP
    $17.99 USD
    €12.99 euro
    $19.99 AUD
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    Inside the Stretch
    of My Heart

    Kindle ebook


    ZOOM

    Susan Noble

    Genre: Poetry

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    About the author

    AESOP Poets, 2014

    Format: Kindle ebook

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    Availability: Download from Amazon

     

    CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE KINDLE EDITION



    Collected Works
    Hardback editions of:

    Before and After the Darkness
    Collected Poems
    The Dream of Stairs
    Drifting Between Empty Tramlines
    A Flock of Blackbirds
    Inside the Stretch of My Heart


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    Susan Noble

    Genre: Poetry & Fiction

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    AESOP Publications, 2014

    6 volumes: ISBNs: various

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate covers

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    £91.94 GBP
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    Compact Collected Works
    Hardback editions of:

    Collected Poems
    Drifting Between Empty Tramlines
    A Flock of Blackbirds


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    Susan Noble

    Genre: Poetry & Fiction

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    AESOP Publications, 2014

    3 volumes: ISBNs: various

    Format: 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo), Blue Cloth (hardback) w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Laminate covers

    Pub. date: 21 July 2014

    All proceeds are being donated to three charities: Mind (The National Association of Mental Health), the Samaritans and Sane

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    £63.96 GBP
    Special offer on Compact Collected Works
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