{"id":15,"date":"2018-01-19T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:57:25","slug":"15-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"343\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/The-Decadence-cover-Mar-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235\" style=\"width:288px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/The-Decadence-cover-Mar-25.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/The-Decadence-cover-Mar-25-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leon Craig\u2019s debut novel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/TheDecadence\"><em>The Decadence&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>is available from Sceptre Books, paperback coming August 2026. It is a gothic tale of hedonism, desire and betrayal. Set in a haunted house in the English countryside, the novel grapples with complex questions of contemporary Jewish identity, antisemitism and solidarity.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Her debut short story collection&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/parallel-hells\/9781529371444\"><em>Parallel Hells<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;was published by Sceptre Books in February 2022 with the paperback released later the same year.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Her work has also featured in <em>Hazlitt<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>TLS,<\/em>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>London Magazine&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;the <em>Sunday Times<\/em>, among other places.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leon is based in Berlin.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Craig\u2019s debut novel&nbsp;The Decadence&nbsp;is available from Sceptre Books, paperback coming August 2026. It is a gothic tale of hedonism, desire and betrayal. Set in a haunted house in the English countryside, the novel grapples with complex questions of contemporary Jewish identity, antisemitism and solidarity. Her debut short story collection&nbsp;Parallel Hells&nbsp;was published by Sceptre Books&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-15","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}