Dr Who And The Drosten’s Curse
This is the first ALK outing into Dr Who territory and deals with strange goings on at the Fetch Brother’s Hotel and Golf Spa, just outside Arbroath. Set in the 1970’s, this adventure features the much-loved fourth incarnation of the …read more
All The Rage
This is a short story anthology, dealing with love, loss and – of course – rage. Here’s a rather nice and explanatory review from The New York Times and another from The Guardian.
On Writing
After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books – it’s just a wonder she’s found the time. These are …read more
Blue Book
“The Blue Book” will be out as a paperback at some point in August and we’ll let you have a look at the new cover as soon as possible. We don’t want to give too much away at this point, …read more
Indelible Acts
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing – the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters’ lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in …read more
What Becomes
Here is the hardback cover for “What Becomes” – image created by the excellent gentleman and photographer, Kevin Low. You may wish to order a copy from the splendid WORDPOWER bookshop. Or feel free to make your own arrangements for …read more
Everything You Need
Nathan Staples is comsumed by loathing and love in equal measures.He is sustained only by his passionate devotion to his estranged wife, Maura, and their teenage daughter, Mary – whom he hasn’t seen in fifteen years, and who thinks he’s …read more
Day
I’m still not listing reviews for Day – It won a Saltire Award, the Costa Prize, the Eifel Literaturpreis, the Austrian State Prize For International Literature and helped me get a Lannan Award – so bits of it are probably …read more
Original Bliss
The stories in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. Whether in Copenhagen or New York City, in the close confines of a TV wardrobe department or in weightless outer space, A.L.Kennedy’s …read more
So I Am Glad
Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. Behind the sound-proof double doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from …read more
Looking for the Possible Dance
Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland. She was born there too. These may not have been the best possible options, but they were the only ones on offer at the time. Although her father did his best, her knowledge …read more
On Bullfighting
This book will be about people who risk death for a living. Whatever you or I think of how and why they do this, they are making that commitment every working day- a commitment which I am pointing out I …read more
Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains
A.L.Kennedy’s first collection of short stories shows a talented individual at work. Her characters are often alone and sometimes lonely as they ponder the mysteries of sex, death and public transport at the end of the twentieth century. Written with …read more
Paradise
Hannah Luckraft knows the taste of paradise. It’s hidden in the peace of open country, it’s sweet on her lover’s skin, it flavours every drink she’s ever taken, but it never seems to stay. Almost forty and with nothing to …read more
Now That You’re Back
Tender, precise, comic and chilling by turn, the stories in A.L.Kennedy’s new collection confirm her reputation as one of the most exciting new writers to have appeared in the last decade. Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence anguish …read more
Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It’s a …read more
Foreign Editions
A.L.Kennedy’s work has been translated into a number of languages: Armenian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Swedish among them. Her principal foreign publishers are: Hanser, Wagenbach and Fischer – for German editions Editions Olivier …read more
