The Writers of Wales Database

CLAIRE, ALEXANDRA

Email: randomwalk2035@gmail.com
Facebook: Random Walk

Alexandra Claire was born and brought up in Cardiff and is an alumnus of London Contemporary Dance School. She made a career in the 1990s as a professional contemporary dancer and choreographer, directing Arts Council of Wales project-funded Tripswitch Dance Theatre and performing with Earthfall and ManAct. Her choreography represented Great Britain in the Citta di Cagliari International Choreography Competition in 1994.

In 1998, Alexandra changed career and began to work in the electricity industry. She currently assists in the operational management of renewable energy generation plants throughout the UK.

Alexandra began to write short stories in 2005 and has been published by Parthian, Honno and the Western Mail. In 2007, she received a bursary from Academi to write her first novel, Random Walk published by Gomer Press in September 2011.

Reviews:
“…Welcome to dystopian Wales! This novel is a chilling cautionary tale, but one which is consistently warm and tender... A wonderful debut novel.”
Rachel Tresize

“...Brave New World meets Big Brother meets The Road this is a future world both strangely familiar and edgily strange.”
Jon Gower

Selected Publications:
Random Walk, Gomer Press, 2011

Contributed to:
Urban Welsh (Parthian, 2005) (Contributor)
Next (Parthian, 2006) (Contributor)
Coming Up Roses (Honno, 2008) (Contributor)
 

Random Walk (Gomer Press, 2011)

It is 2035. In Wales a coastal city lies isolated from the outside world, its hungry inhabitants forced to scrape a scrapheap living. What is left of society is overseen by e-Tel, whose subverted sociological software controls the behaviour of a critical mass. Struggling to survive the surveillance and broadcasts are Remi, the free-running rebel, and eight-year-old Osian and his grandfather, Glyn. But when outsider Lisa arrives, each is compelled to choose once and for all between the real and the virtual world.

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