Angela Young
I write fiction. My first novel, SPEAKING of LOVE, is available as an ebook here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Speaking-Love-Angela-Young-ebook/dp/B00G4401G4 and my second, THE DANCE of LOVE, is published by Crowood Press http://www.crowood.com/details.asp?isbn=9781910208038&t;=The-Dance-of-Love I'm writing my third.
www.angela-young.co.uk
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Angela Young's Column
http://www.angela-young.co.uk/column
I write fiction and I post a monthly blog, every 14th. My blog is part of my website: I write about writing fiction, and about things that interest me and - each month - I blog about something I would like to have made in a parallel universe where time is infinite and all things are possible.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 140 )
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A Valentine to the Earth: Terra Carta
On 11 January the Prince of Wales announced Terra Carta, Earth Charter, a Magna Carta for the twenty-first century: the basis of a recovery plan for nature,... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2021 BOOKS -
Feeling Low? Try Karunavirus. Seriously.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling pretty low about the state of our corona-contaminated world (not to mention other depressing events) so I went... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2021 BOOKS -
When This Is Over … and Some Christmas Lights for the Dark Winter Nights
When this is over, may we never again take for granted a handshake with a stranger, full shelves at the store, conversations with neighbours, a crowded... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2020 BOOKS -
Bookshop.org: an Online Bookshop That Supports Indie Bookshops. And, ‘It’s Easie...
Bookshop.org, as the Guardian articles below suggest, is exactly what the publishing world has been waiting for. Bookshop.org supports independent bookshops... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2020 BOOKS -
October is Black History Month in the UK. But Shouldn’t Black History Be Taught...
Black History Month began in America as an annual History Week, in 1925. That year, Black historian Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, announced... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2020 BOOKS -
The Doll Test and the Heartbreakingly Detrimental Effects of Segregation
In the 1940s, in America, Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of tests known colloquially as The Doll Tests. Read more
Posted on 14 September 2020 BOOKS -
Deborah Alma’s Poetry Pharmacy: Poetry Prescriptions
Last week I had a telephone consultation with a pharmacist. Not an unusual thing to do in these corona-times, but this pharmacist doesn’t dispense drugs. Debora... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2020 BOOKS -
What Does It Mean to Be White? It Means I’m Racist
In a recent interview, Robin DiAngelo, a white person, said that to understand my racism, as a white person, I need to ask myself: What does it mean to be white... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2020 BOOKS -
Clean Air: Act. And a Poem and a Chat
If you’re not as ancient as me you won’t remember the pea-soupers in London: Great Smog of London, December, 1952 and I’d only been breathing for just under... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2020 BOOKS -
George Floyd: I Can’t Breathe: BlackOut Tuesday 2 June 2020
LA Reid, record producer and founder of HitCo, posted this on twitter two days ago: And George Floyd’s brother, Philonese, says this on YouTube. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2020 BOOKS -
Shonaleigh Cumbers: Grief is Love with Nowhere to Go; and One Green Thing:...
Shonaleigh Cumbers is a Drut’syla. To quote from here: She’s a living tradition holder. It’s a tradition you probably won’t have heard of. Read more
Posted on 14 May 2020 BOOKS -
Stories for Children in Lockdown
At the beginning of April Yahoo set up a short story competition for stories to entertain children during the lockdown. Yesterday, 27 April, they announced the... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2020 BOOKS -
Poems for These Coronavirus Times
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Posted on 14 April 2020 BOOKS -
Wise and Kind Words for the Coronavirus Pandemic by Adrie Kusserow
This poem for these strange times is written by Adrie Kusserow after Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese : it speaks for itself. Mary Oliver for Corona Times, thoughts... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2020 BOOKS -
Can We Ever Know Our Parents as Individuals? And One Green Thing: Cling Film...
This year my sisters and I had the family ciné films transferred to DVD and I’ve just watched them all. And as I watched the parts where we children didn’t... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2020 BOOKS -
A Warming Valentine to the World (and Vegan Vogue)
A friend of mine told me about the speech Prince Charles made at this year’s Davos World Economic Forum who say, in their Mission Statement: We believe that... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2020 BOOKS -
Good News to Begin 2020; Splosh! (to Reduce Plastic) and Beautiful New Year...
So often good news doesn’t make the news, so here are a few good pieces of news to start 2020 with, from Future Crunch (where you’ll find 99 other good pieces o... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2020 BOOKS -
A Vote for the Planet; a Christmas Rose; and Plant a Tree for Christmas
By the time you read this we’ll know the result of the UK General Election and I hope with all my heart we’ll have voted for the planet above our membership... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2019 BOOKS -
100 Novels That Shaped Our World; Free Travel with a Book and One Green Thing
Four women and two men have just chosen 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. The choosers are: Stig Abell, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Syima Aslam,... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2019 BOOKS -
Greta Thunberg and Climate Change; There is No Planet B; Extinction Rebellion an...
On Friday 20 and Friday 27 September Global Climate Strikes took place across the world, inspired by Greta Thunberg who began her Friday school strikes in Augus... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2019 BOOKS