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 ( 139 )
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Our Christmas Tree: a Work in Progress … and The Connection at St Martin’s
My other half put our Christmas tree together yesterday (it has hundreds of branches, all with different colour codes, all with their own little slots in its... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2017 BOOKS -
Atul Gawande and Being Mortal; and a Remembrance Poppy Badge
Atul Gawande‘s Being Mortal – which I wrote about here in the context of his 2014 Reith Lectures – is extraordinary for its courageous and honest confrontation... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2017 BOOKS -
Chaos & Creativity; and Beautiful Bookshops
I dislike hate chaos. Very much. Who doesn’t? But it’s an essential state if you want to write fiction. Messiness of the mind is the sine qua non for writers. Read more
Posted on 14 October 2017 BOOKS -
Rejection is a Rite of Passage for Writers, and the Raw Chocolate Company
One of the things that a writer takes a while truly to believe (it’s taken me a while) is that rejection is part of the process: it’s necessary, inevitable and... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2017 BOOKS -
A Very Small Trawl Through a Few Less Well-known News Sites
This month – perhaps because it’s the silly season when news tends towards the frivolous because the House of Commons is in recess and us ordinary folk go on... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2017 BOOKS -
Blurt It Out and Instead of a Card
I’m submitting the manuscript of my third novel to literary agents. It’s a process that requires much patience, a certain amount of luck and, most importantly,... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2017 BOOKS -
Words on Writing, and Pass on a Poem
There are hundreds of thousands of words written about writing fiction: how to write, why we write, what to do when we can’t write and on and on so that,... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2017 BOOKS -
Auditioning to Become a WI Speaker, and ‘Born Baffled: Musings on a Writing Life’
In March I auditioned to become a WI speaker. The WI, you say? Don’t they just make jam, sing Jerusalem and talk a lot? Yes to all three, but no to JUST. Read more
Posted on 14 May 2017 BOOKS -
Spring in London, and The Kid Stays in the Picture
Spring in London is an astonishing thing: blossom among the grey buildings and pavements; green and blue and pink and white making us look up at it and then at... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2017 BOOKS -
A History of Britain in 21 Women, by Jenni Murray
This is both the thing I’m writing about this month and the thing I’d love to have written, in a parallel universe where time is infinite and all things are... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2017 BOOKS -
Anselm Kiefer and Heywood Hill
On the weekend we went to the Anselm Kiefer Exhibition at the White Cube in Bermondsey. It’s just closed, but if there’s any of his work anywhere near you do... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2017 BOOKS -
John Berger, Ways of Seeing … and PEN International
John Berger, who died aged 90 on January 2nd, was a critic, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and poet and well-known to many. Read more
Posted on 14 January 2017 BOOKS -
Dare Always Dare, and Guerilla Grafters
A friend pointed out to me a week or so ago that this: DARE ALWAYS DARE is written in neon above the foyer entrance to the Old Vic Theatre (no idea why I’d neve... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2016 BOOKS -
Third Novel Delivered, and the Reith Lectures, 2016
This month I delivered my third novel (working title For the Love of Life) to my agent, so now, while I do all the things I haven’t had time to do (updating my... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2016 BOOKS -
Rose Tremain’s The Gustav Sonata and Dioni Mazaraki’s Silver Jewellery
I’ve read all Rose Tremain‘s novels and I love the fact that they fail to fit neatly into any particular category (except the category of beautifully written... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2016 BOOKS -
Theresa May, the Queen and Boris Johnson And, More Seriously, Kent Haruf
A friend of mine sent me this sometime after the Brexit Bungle: The real reason Boris was appointed to the Foreign Office There’s not much else to say, is there? Read more
Posted on 14 September 2016 BOOKS -
How Dramatic Stories Change Brain Chemistry, and NOT the Booker Prize
Good strong stories, as we all know, transport us to other people’s worlds. So, when we’re reading fiction, even though we know the people we’re reading about... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2016 BOOKS -
The UK Referendum, Brexit, and Meike Ziervogel on the Importance of Listening...
On 1 July Meike Ziervogel, founder and publisher at Peirene Press, published this: Translation is Europe’s only common language. Read more
Posted on 14 July 2016 BOOKS -
Why Readers Stop Reading; Lisa McInerney’s 2016 Bailey’s Win, and Penicillin
An interesting survey on why readers stop reading: There’s more here. It’s published by Lit World Interviews (I found it on a TLC facebook post. Read more
Posted on 14 June 2016 BOOKS -
Brainpickings and Mindset
I’ve just discovered a website called brainpickings. I was noodling around on the internet, trying to find out something for one of my characters (what it was... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2016 BOOKS