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 ( 139 )
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Do You Want Escape Or Experience When You Read Fiction? And: from Food Desert...
I found this definition of the distinction between genre and literary fiction here: The main reason for a person to read Genre Fiction is for entertainment,... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2016 BOOKS -
Mindfulness, Fitzroy Square and Subversive (Guerilla) Gardening
A few weeks ago I did an Introduction to Mindfulness day at the London Mindfulness Project (whose rooms are in the astonishingly beautiful, Georgian Fitzroy... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2016 BOOKS -
A Valentine to Fear; and Visual Verse
In Elizabeth Gilbert‘s brilliant new book Big Magic (I reviewed it here) she acknowledges that we need fear in our lives, otherwise we’d be: Straight-up... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2016 BOOKS -
Mistakes, for a New Year
The first days of this new year have brought oddly mixed emotions. Happiness and gratitude that all those celebrations with friends and family went well, mingle... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2016 BOOKS -
Laurie Lee’s A Village Christmas, and Other Things
I read about Laurie Lee’s A Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year at dovegreyreader’s wonderful blog early in November and I’m hoping it will en... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2015 BOOKS -
Leslie House, Fife; and the Daily Good
My great-grandmother Noël Rothes, whose life was the initial inspiration for my novel The Dance of Love, lived at Leslie House between 1904 and 1919. Read more
Posted on 14 November 2015 BOOKS -
What It’s Like to Write and What It’s Like to Imagine You Might Write; and...
In Edith Wharton‘s 1925 The Writing of Fiction in the section called ‘Constructing a Navel’ – obviously a typographical mistake but one I like for its... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 BOOKS -
Mindfulness; 18 Things Creative People Do Differently and the Ever-magical...
Mindfulness, according to The Mindfulness Project in London, is: A simple and very powerful practice of training our attention. Read more
Posted on 14 September 2015 BOOKS -
How Incomprehensible Unworkable Things Inspire
Joanna Briscoe and Grace Paley caught my attention this month. They’re very different writers but I’ve just read articles about writing by both. Grace Paley die... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 BOOKS -
Ideas Are NOT Stories; and the Biblioteca Jardim
It becomes obvious if you write, but perhaps not if you don’t: ideas are not stories. Before I wrote or, at least, before I finished a novel, I didn’t grasp thi... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2015 BOOKS -
Men and Embroidery, and a Belated Apology
Inspired by this post about John Craske and his delicate life and delicate embroidery in a new book by Julia Blackburn, at dovegreyreader earlier this week, I’v... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2015 BOOKS -
Electoral Reform in the UK. And Inspiration.
On 5 May 2011 a referendum on electoral reform was held in the UK: 68% of us voted No; 32% (including me) voted Yes; the turnout was 42%. Read more
Posted on 14 May 2015 BOOKS -
103 Years On, Titanic; and the Things That Come Unbidden When You Write
One hundred and three years ago today more than 1,500 people died in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic when RMS Titanic hit the iceberg and then sank, i... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2015 BOOKS -
A Time When Women Weren’t Persons … and Other Equally Unequal Inequalities
In 1927 a group of Canadian women’s rights activists, including Emily Murphy, who was born 147 years ago today Emily Murphy, Women’s Rights Activist, born 14... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2015 BOOKS -
The Brain in Love; and Jim Burge’s Burgeoning Promotional Videos for Writers...
Dr Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University, studies the brain, in love. She gave a glorious TED talk about it, here. I particularly love... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2015 BOOKS -
Je Suis Charlie …
… one week on, what else is there to say but Je Suis Charlie and to stand with the murdered at Charlie Hebdo? Except Je Suis Ahmed. copied from Wikipedia... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2015 BOOKS -
Fog Island Mountains and Dr Atal Gawande, This Year’s BBC Reith Lecturer
Michelle Bailat-Jones has written a beautiful novel called Fog Island Mountains. I’ve just posted a review of it here. The novel won the 2013 Christopher... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2014 BOOKS -
Sequels, Literary Festivals and Natasha O’Farrell’s Heavenly Handbag
There have been some heart-warming reactions to The Dance of Love and several people have suggested I write a sequel, possibly set in the Depression and the... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2014 BOOKS -
Haworth Parsonage, Richard Flanagan and Anselm Keifer
In September we holidayed in England: we travelled north-west to Stratford (and saw a wonderful production of The Roaring Girl, a play about Mary Frith, an... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2014 BOOKS -
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Posted on 20 October 2014 BOOKS