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 […]