Category Archives: Speaking of Love

The Troubadour Cafe

Posted on September 23, 2008 by angela

The Troubadour is, as they say on their website, a proper cafe. It’s been around for years but it just gets better and better. It’s in London, find out where here, and it’s in Speaking of Love because, in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bob Dylan, cafe, London, Speaking of Love, The Troubadour | 3 Comments

SW11 Literary Festival

Posted on August 31, 2008 by angela

I know I said I wasn’t going to post for a while because I’m writing … but I thought you might like to know that the SW11 (London) Literary Festival begins on Monday 8 September and ends on Monday 29 … Continue reading →

Posted in Jan Blake, Ruth Rendell, Speaking of Love, SW11 Literary Festival, Victoria Hislop, Will Self | 5 Comments

South East London reading

Posted on June 9, 2008 by angela

I’ll be talking about and reading from Speaking of Love tonight at Penge Library in south east London. It’s part of The Blurb, Bromley’s June festival of Books and Reading and it’s free, but if you’d like to come you … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Chat, Books to talk About, Penge Library, Speaking of Love, Spread the Word | 2 Comments

Planning a novel …

Posted on April 26, 2008 by angela

… is a strange and frustrating business, despite my colleague’s beautiful vine and wire analogy. My heart gives a little leap of excitement each time I think I’ve ‘got it’, only to find that what I thought I’d got won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Hope Remains, Peter Mattiessen, Planning a novel, puzzles, Speaking of Love, vine and wire analogy, Zen Buddhism | 6 Comments

Cornflower Book Group

Posted on April 12, 2008 by angela

The Cornflower Book Group is discussing Speaking of Love, so if you’d like to join in the discussion, hop on over there, here.I’d like to hear what you think does work as well as what you think doesn’t work, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Group discussion, Cornflower Book Group, Speaking of Love | 1 Comment

The Cornflower Book Group

Posted on March 15, 2008 by angela

Yesterday, at the Cornflower Book Group, Speaking of Love came out of the hat to be read next. It’s the fifth volume to be read by Cornflower Book Group members and discussion will begin from 12 April on Cornflower’s blog. … Continue reading →

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Cover story … and fab reports

Posted on March 7, 2008 by angela

In October I asked people to tell me the short story that Speaking of Love‘s paperback cover told them. I promised a copy of the paperback to the writer of the story that most appealed to me (see original post … Continue reading →

Posted in Angela Young, Eliza Graham, event reports, Mark Thornton, Mostly Books, Paperback cover, Simon Thomas, Speaking of Love, Spread the Word, Stuck in a Book, World Book Day | 1 Comment

Do you live near Oxford (England)?

Posted on March 3, 2008 by angela

If you do, and you aren’t already doing something tonight, you might like to come to Mostly Books in Stert Street, Abingdon at 7.30 to hear Eliza Graham and I talking about the effect that the Spread the Word, Books … Continue reading →

Posted in Abingdon, Angela Young, Eliza Graham, Mostly Books, Oxford, Playing with the Moon, Speaking of Love, Spread the Word, World Book Day | 2 Comments

Daffodils for St David’s day

Posted on March 1, 2008 by angela

… from my little garden. … aren’t they beautiful? And because it’s St David’s day why not support a Welsh Arts Centre that might lose its Arts Council funding? The St Donat’s Arts Centre runs the wonderful Beyond the Border … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyond the Border, daffodils, Speaking of Love, St David's day, St Donat's Arts Center | 1 Comment

Spread the Word / World Book Day – last chance to vote

Posted on February 29, 2008 by angela

As I write this there are less than three hours to go before voting closes on the shortlist for THE Book to Talk About 2008 award. If you’d like to vote for Speaking of Love, go here. Or click on … Continue reading →

Posted in 6 March 2008, last chance to vote, Speaking of Love, Spread the Word, The Book to Talk About, World Book Day | 1 Comment

Spread the Word

Posted on February 4, 2008 by angela

Speaking of Love has been shortlisted for World Book Day’s The Book to Talk About award. It’s very exciting … . You can see the ten books on the shortlist here; you can comment on and vote for the ten … Continue reading →

Posted in Bookseller, Shortlisted, Speaking of Love, Spread the Word, The Book to Talk About, World Book Day | 3 Comments

World Book Day, Book Groups and Speaking of Love

Posted on December 3, 2007 by angela

My publishers, the wonderful Beautiful Books, say that if you’d like, they will send you a free copy of Speaking of Love because it’s been longlisted for the World Book Day/Spread the Word award. The number of free copies is … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Groups, free copies, Speaking of Love, World Book Day | 1 Comment

Speaking of Love and The Book To Talk About

Posted on November 24, 2007 by angela

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Speaking of Love, Spread the Word, The Book to Talk About | 2 Comments

Selling a first novel, and writing

Posted on July 23, 2007 by angela

I’ve been thinking about Mostly Books ever since I typed ‘sell my novel’ into Google (it came up with 15,500,000 sites so I don’t know now how I happened upon Mostly Books, but I am so glad I did). Because … Continue reading →

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Speaking of sales figures

Posted on July 20, 2007 by angela

I have just discovered that my first novel Speaking of Love (published by the utterly wonderful Beautiful Books) has sold five copies in a week, in my local cafe, Il Molino, on Battersea Park Road. These sales figures will not, … Continue reading →

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