I am excited to announce this week (May 25th to 31st) I will be doing a blog tour, guest-posting, having reviews or interviews on a different blog every day. Thank you to all the brilliant bloggers for hosting the tour. Monday 25th May Blog Tour kicks off: http://anawfullotofreading.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/blog-tour-ravinder-randhawa-guest-post.html Tuesday 26th May http://anawfullotofreading.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/blog-tour-ravinder-randhawa-guest-post.html Wednesday 27th […]
In Praise of Doubt
‘I tell you, the first duty of manhood and womanhood is a Declaration of Independence.’ (Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw) ‘I don’t know’ ‘I’m not sure,’ are often received as statements of weakness, vacillation or lacking intellectual rigour. I beg to disagree. I believe they are two of the strongest statements a person […]
Complicity With Barbarism
The most terrible things hit our computer screens every day: injustice, suffering, calamity, wars, violence, and a hundred other cruelties and degradations. We choose which ones we’ll watch and which ones we won’t. In general we exercise a reasoned approach and self-restraint based on our ethics, politics and beliefs; we don’t want to be colluding […]
Letter to an Unknown Soldier
Letter to an Unknown Soldier was a project initiated by Kate Pullinger and Neil Bartlett to create a memorial of words. For me, the best kind of memorial. I felt a need to write my letter, not because I celebrate war, but because I empathised with the suffering of individuals amidst that carnage and wondered […]
Beauty and the Beast
Enemies. Romance. Fireworks. YA novel. Top Twenty Feminist Bookfair. ‘Problems? Confusions? Contradictions? I got them all and if you’ve got them, then FLAUNT them is my motto.’ Meet Harjinder (aka Hari-jan): ‘A’ level student, supermarket worker and desperate journalist. Feisty and impulsive, Hari-jan can’t refuse a dare and to make matters worse has fallen in […]
Dynamite
Adventure. Life. Love. Fun, feisty, tender and wry: a glittering collection of short stories. From kick-ass heroines to spacecraft interiors; the heartache of first love to echoes from history; the ordinary pulse of life to a search for the missing; treacherous boyfriends to life’s dilemmas; riots to violent murder. Original and entertaining: stories that evoke […]
A Wicked Old Woman
“A Wicked Old Woman is funny, laconic and absolutely refuses to back down…” http://alasdairstuart.com/2015/11/03/review-a-wicked-old-woman-by-ravinder-randhawa/ “The first thing I have to say about is book is that reading it felt more like experiencing a poem than reading a simple story. Every word felt carefully considered and placed for maximum impact. ………It’s a very beautiful book, in […]