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
MY BLOGS
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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 ( 115 )
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Reading Black Writers
Until George Floyd was murdered on 25 May 2020, I had not begun to acknowledge, let alone unearth, my inherent racism. That racism includes not reading or even... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2022 BOOKS -
Stephen Lawrence Day 22 April 2022 #sldayfdn
This is from Stephen’s Story on the Stephen Lawrence Day website: Stephen Lawrence was born and grew up in south-east London, where he lived with his parents... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2022 BOOKS -
Ukraine: & How We Can Help #StandWithUkraine
Ukraine flag. Credit: Ayhan Altun/Getty Images click on the images below for links about where and how to donate money or supplies and how to support people... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2022 BOOKS -
Valentine’s Day Traditions
There are at least three different saints who answer to the name Valentine or Valentinus. One legend of St Valentine tells how, when in prison, he sent a... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2022 BOOKS -
Worldwide Ways of Welcoming New Year
Different peoples in different countries do different things to welcome a new year. In SIBERIA, in Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world, and... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2022 BOOKS -
Buy Black for Christmas (and Beyond)
If you’re white, like me, perhaps you haven’t consciously thought about seeking out Black-owned businesses and shops to buy from. Read more
Posted on 14 December 2021 BOOKS -
The Eleven, No, Twelve Days of COP26
When the Queen addressed world leaders at the beginning of COP26 she said: Act for our children and our children’s children. COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2021 BOOKS -
Betty Campbell Taught Black British History Every Month
On September 29, 2021, in Cardiff, a statue was unveiled to Betty Campbell, the first Black British headteacher in Wales, and the first to teach Black British... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2021 BOOKS -
White Allies Network, and Black British History
On 2 September, I joined the White Allies Network. They are, as they say on their website: A network of people that are committed to learn and do what it takes... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2021 BOOKS -
Reading as a Writer. Writing as a Reader. And the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
Last week a friend of mine and I talked about the six books shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. We’ve done it before and it’s always... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2021 BOOKS -
Black Minds Matter (BMM) : Donations #BMMUK21K
I’ve been in therapy, but the reasons for my therapy have never included the trauma of racism, of living inside a black or brown skin in a white-supremacist... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2021 BOOKS -
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
This week is the week of the Women’s Prize Virtual Shortlist Festival. For the (almost invisible) amount of £12 you’ll have access to three evenings of... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2021 BOOKS -
Opening up Set to Blossom at Home. But What About India (her Vaccine Generosity...
A beautiful blossom for our oh-so-close-to-lockdown-easing here in the UK. The Wayfaring Tree (Virburnum lantana): a sign you’re homeward bound. Read more
Posted on 14 May 2021 BOOKS -
Stephen Lawrence Day, 22 April 2021
We will no longer ignore, the racism we all deplore. We will never forget Stephen Lawrence. Directed by Simon Frederick. Written by Simon Frederick, Marcus Jone... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2021 BOOKS -
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: Bill Gates (& Gordon Brown)
In this Guardian review of Bill Gates’s How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Gordon Brown writes: Success [in combating climate change] will come by demonstrating... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2021 BOOKS -
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