When it comes to award ceremonies, the film industry has the book world licked. As Hollywood rolls out its red carpet and stars prepare to be overcome with surprise, gratitude and lurv towards anyone in the radius of their star-spangled tears, we might yawn at the tedium of the ceremony (check out 6 Things We … Continue reading Bigger than the Booker
When I’m approached to review a book a lot depends on the mood I’m in, and when an intern from SilverWood Books popped up offering a free copy of Cells by Harriet Grace, I was definitely in two minds. The subject matter – infertility – didn’t really grab me. Was I ready for an ‘issues’ … Continue reading Cells: self-published literary fiction
Confessions of an erstwhile librarian Now that I’ve (re)embarked on my historical and now non-fiction (?) project, I’m beginning to panic worry about the general disorganisation of my ‘research materials’ by which I mean everything from dog-eared articles and handwritten notes, to things I’ve typed up in Word or grabbed from DNB or Wikipedia. Then there … Continue reading Writing, research, technology
“A complex tale of love, truth, identity, self-discovery and betrayal which shuttles between Jamaica and London, from the turbulent 70s to the present day.” Jenni O’Connor’s description of her self-pub e-book is an excellent summing up. The heroine is Monique, a journalist of Jamaican descent who goes back to Jamaica for the funeral of a … Continue reading e-pub review: Reach for a Different Sun
I’d like to thank my host at The Victorianist for publishing my post about David Octavius Hill. The article presents the bare bones of a story I’ve been unravelling for a while and which gets more interesting all the time. For instance, David Octavius Hill was so called by dint of being his parents’ eighth child, but … Continue reading The Victorianist – and a sad addition
Ali Bacon, Author 