Angela Young

LATEST ARTICLES ( 147 )

• 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

• The Launch of The Dance of Love, History of the Rain, and Emily Young’s Kew...

  

  The DANCE of LOVE The Dance of Love was launched at the wonderful Barnes Bookshop last Thursday: I wrote about on Robert Hale’s blog – the book’s publishers –... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2014 BOOKS

• Today for One Day Only THE DANCE of LOVE is .99p on the Kindle Daily Deal (or...

  

  If you own an electronic reading device (why does that sound so odd?) and you’d like to download and read a historical romance that’s received kind words from... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 BOOKS

• Niall Williams’s History of the Rain

  I’m so full of Niall Williams‘s History of the Rain that I don’t want to write about anything else this month. It is the most beautiful and beautifully-written... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 BOOKS

• The DANCE of LOVE is Published Today

  

  Hurrah! A big thank you to Buried River Press for publishing it. You can find out more from the YouTube film here, or the book’s pages on my website, here:... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 BOOKS

• The DANCE of LOVE is Published Today

  

  Hurrah! A big thank you to Buried River Press for publishing it. You can find out more from the YouTube film here, or the book’s pages on my website, here:... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 BOOKS

• The DANCE of LOVE is Published Today

  

  Hurrah! A big thank you to Buried River Press for publishing it. You can find out more from the YouTube film here, or the book’s pages on my website, here:... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 BOOKS

• THE DANCE of LOVE Published Soon; Goodreads Giveaway; First Two Reviews and …...

  

  Happy news, THE DANCE of LOVE will be published on 31 July by Buried River Press. You can pre-order copies here and here and here with free worldwide delivery,... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 BOOKS

• Writing a Novel is Just Like Life …

  

  … it’s only in the doing of it that I discover what works and what doesn’t. I can plan and plan and plan and I do, but when I do I tend, at least some of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 BOOKS

• SPEAKING of LOVE : Just .99p Or $1.66 for Easter : Kindle Countdown

  

  For a few days over Easter, 17 April to 22 April to be exact, the ebook of SPEAKING of LOVE will be half price. Just .99p at amazon.co.uk and $1.66 at amazon... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 BOOKS

• SPEAKING of LOVE : Just .99p for Easter

  

  For a few days over Easter, 17 April to 22 April to be exact, the ebook of SPEAKING of LOVE will be on sale for just .99p at amazon.co.uk. (It’s also available... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 BOOKS

• The Titanic: the 102nd Anniversary of the Tragic Sinking, And, on a Happier Note...

  

  On this day, 102 years ago, many many people drowned, or froze to death, in the icy waters of the north Atlantic after RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg. My... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 BOOKS

• Failure is the Mother of Success; and Paula Meehan

  

  失败是成功之母 Shībài shì chénggōng zhī mǔ Failure is the Mother of Success (a Chinese Proverb) Last week Anne Enright, Booker Prize-winning wonderful writer, gave... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 BOOKS