Author Archive: Catherine Czerkawska
Catherine Czerkawska is a widely published writer of novels, short stories, poems and award winning plays for the stage and for BBC Radio 4.
Her Scottish historical novel the Curiosity Cabinet (Polygon 2005) was one of three finalists for the Dundee Book Prize. It is now available as a download from Amazon's Kindle Store.
Her non-fiction book, God’s Islanders, a major hardback study of the history of the Isle of Gigha, was published by Birlinn in November 2006. She has just completed two new novels. The Amber Heart, loosely based on episodes from her own Polish family history, is a vivid and dramatic story of personal tragedy and triumph, set against the background of a turbulent time and place, while The Summer Visitor (soon to be released onto Kindle) is a homage to Wuthering Heights, a disturbing tale of cruelty, loss and enduring love, set in rural Scotland and Ireland
Her blog is at http://wordarts.blogspot.com
The Many Lives of a Love Story: The Curiosity Cabinet
As a writer, you must fall in love with the idea of the book in your head. It’s hard to describe this process to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. It isn’t anything like the white heat of inspiration that new writers sometimes anticipate. So much of writing is perspiration rather than inspiration. But the idea of […]
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