Speaking of Love has been longlisted for Spread the Word’s Book to Talk About, which is wonderful news for the book, and for all the books on the list (there are 100 of them). The award will be announced in the UK’s Year of Reading (2008). The short list will appear in February – voted … Read More
Month: November 2007
La Serenissima
I have been here: and I was going to show you some other beauties … but the photographs proved impossible to upload … and Blogger kept showing me an incomprehensible code and saying ‘We’re sorry’. I have just got back and it is extremely difficult to work as fast as I did before I left, … Read More
The writing process …
… or should that be the thicket? I seem to go from a simple idea for a novel, a contemporary Beauty and the Beast in the case of my next novel, into a thicket of handwritten notes, ideas scribbled on stray pieces of paper, written scenes, more ideas, bits of plot, character notes, more ideas, … Read More
GIFT day and Lewis Hyde’s The Gift
Over on Dovegreyreader’s blog today she writes about GIFT day, organised by Canongate for the publication of Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift, which argues that we should keep some parts of our social, cultural and spiritual life out of the marketplace. He believes that the rise of capitalism has brought about the decline of the … Read More