This is a book dedicated to the city of London and people s opinions of the city It is a collection of abstracts taken from other books from a variety of authors both well known to me and those unfamiliar The chapters are split into different sections relating to different areas, people or characters of the city, ranging from the Thames to Pomposity and Ceremony I don t know London particularly well but I didn t feel that this book gave me a sense of feeling of the place as other books within t [ I visited London several times but after reading this well done literary guide book of the city I realized that I am terribly illiterate when it comes to really appreciating the city A collection of literary descriptions of London, this guide is not exclusively for doctors in literature, but for anyone that would love to understand the city beyond the short description from the classical tourist guides Thanks to this guide I got in my travel pocket the key to better understanding the city and a [ Wonderful excerpts from a range of literature on London A mix of historical and recent fiction and non fiction covering diverse views of the city Great inspiration for travel and pointers for further reading.
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Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. Short Stories. About Heather Reyes. Heather Reyes. I'm Heather Reyes - writer, editor, publisher,' Londoner'. I'm co-founder of Oxygen Books and have edited all nine of the volumes in our city-pick series of travel anthologies. Before setting up Oxygen Books in , I had published a range of things - children's stories, poetry, short stories, articles, and a novel Zade, Saqi Books Now that Oxygen Books is ticking over, I'm getting b Hello.
Now that Oxygen Books is ticking over, I'm getting back to some of my own writing again. This summer my 'fiftysomething' novel Perfectly Fine is out I guess it must be a beach read as the cover has some rather lovely coloured pebbles on sand - actually made on Aldeburgh beach by my granddaughter Abigail Reyes.
Talking it over with Genghis Khan, my rather quirky first short story collection, is out this autumn. I think readers will either love or hate it - I hope it's the former! Do let me know either way.
I hope this website gives you the information you need - I guess it depends on why you've looked me up! Born on the outskirts of London, I've always lived, studied and worked either within or less than half an hour from the capital.
I went on to King's College for a post-graduate teaching year, but didn't take up a teaching post until much later. I worked as a freelance writer for a while - stories, articles and children's books - until starting a family. Although a card-carrying feminist, I loved - and still love - being a mother, and elected to stay home and look after my two amazing children until they started school, when I took up a teaching post at my old secondary school.
I had a number of short stories published and was working on longer things, too - 'learning the craft' - and at some point I went back to uni part-time and took an MA in modern literature, then a Ph. After a number of 'near misses' with getting a full-length work published, my novel Zade set in Paris was accepted for publication by Saqi Books, and came out in It made a long-list of twelve books for the Prince Maurice Prize for writing about love. I was over-awed to find that Zadie Smith whom I really admire was also on the long-list though even she didn't make it to the final three!
Soon after this I took an editing qualification, left teaching, and worked as a freelance editor for a while - though continuing to work on my own writing when I could. It was during a trip to Athens in early that my husband, Malcolm Burgess, had the idea for our urban anthologies and we set up Oxygen Books. For some time we'd liked the idea of setting up our own small publishing house, but it needed that 'concrete idea' - about what we should publish that no-one else seemed to be doing - in order to justify such an all-consuming venture.
We're now both finding a bit more time for our own writing again, while continuing our publishing venture.
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