Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.
Excerpt from The Homecoming, by Anna Enquist, translated by Eileen Stevens
An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel that explores the passions and sorrows of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook. The Homecoming by Anna Enquist Translated by Eileen Stevens After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the […]
From Hurt to Healing by Jayne Martin
From Hurt to Healing by Jayne Martin My father’s hands are missing from my life My father’s hands did not hold mine, lift me when I fell, muss my hair or pretend to steal my nose, point the way or beckon me to follow. My father’s hands did not comfort me when I […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laila Ibrahim
In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies. 1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. […]
Writing White Africa
I was born and grew up in Zambia, and I developed an early appetite for African fiction. I did my secondary schooling at the Dominican Convent Girls’ School in Lusaka. When I was about thirteen, I was allowed to start borrowing books from the locked glass-fronted cabinet in the library. The headmistress, Sister Cordula, kept […]
Writing Voting Day
By Clare O’Dea Imagine if you could speak to a time traveller? Well, you can. If you want to know what it was like to live in 1950s Switzerland, as I did, you can ask the people who were there. It’s wonderful. Always a compulsive story collector, I never miss a chance to find out […]
My Road to Writing, Barbara Murphy
My Road to Writing, Barbara Murphy What makes a person write a book? To come up with a plot, characters, and a tale that holds the reader’s attention? Taking thoughts in your head and translating them on to paper, ultimately creating a novel? It isn’t an easy thing to do, and every author will have […]
The Inspiration behind Hidden Depths
Every family has its stories and mine is no exception. But in between the funny sayings, quirky behaviour and lost treasures, there is one that has always held my attention. My great-grandfather, Lawrence Beesley, survived the sinking of the Titanic. A fact made even more incredible because he was travelling second class, from where only […]
Interview with N. Griffin, author of TRIGGER
For fans of books such as Speak, The Hunger Games, and Educated, TRIGGER is a harrowing thriller, a tour de force young adult novel about a teen girl manipulated and isolated by her father. It would be an unbelievable tale, if it weren’t drawn from N. Griffin’s own childhood experiences. TRIGGER by N. Griffin (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, March 29, […]
THE WEDDING VEIL by Kristy Woodson Harvey: Excerpt
New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey is bringing “her signature wit, charm, and heart” (Woman’s World) to her much-anticipated historical fiction release, THE WEDDING VEIL (Hardcover, March 29, Gallery). In the vein of Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman and Jennifer Robson’s The Gown, The Wedding Veil brings to life a group of remarkable women forging their own paths and explores the mystery […]
Inspiration for The Lightning Tree, by Lene Fogelberg
My Inspiration for The Lightning Tree, by Lene Fogelberg I love being in nature. For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed going for walks in the woods or by the sea. I grew up in a small coastal town in the south of Sweden, where the rural surroundings nurtured my love of poetry and reading. […]
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