Angela K Smith

Great launch for Where No Shadow Awaits last week…
#newbooks #historicalfiction

A new blog thinking about the advantages of fiction…

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/40-an-a...

#historicalfiction
#booksky

Out now! Where No Shadow Awaits launches today! By turns trench trench narrative, murder mystery, ghost story and romance, follow Joe and Gabrielle as their troubled story plays out against a backdrop of the battle of Passchendaele. #historicalfiction #firstworldwar
www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Shadow...

Introducing Where No Shadow Awaits It’s nearly publication day for Where No shadow Awaits! I am so excited as I’ve lived with this novel for such a long time. The main characters began to inhabit my brain back when I was doing my PhD o...

New blog for a new novel! Where No Shadow Awaits is here at last. Find out about it…

#historicalfiction
#firstworldwarfiction
#booksky

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/39-intr...

‘An everlasting dislocation of combinations’ Many contemporary First World War books inspired me as I undertook the research for Where No Shadow Awaits. I’ve already written about two of the key texts, but there is a third that was also very inf...

New blog about one of the books that inspired my forthcoming novel, Where No Shadow Awaits, out September.
#firstworldwar #womenswriting #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/an-ever...

Women in a Forbidden Zone A few blogs ago I talked about The Forbidden Zone by Mary Borden. Another book that was an influence in the development of my forthcoming novel, Where No Shadow Awaits, is Ellen Newbold La Motte’s 191...

New blog about women in the First World War anticipating my new novel, Where No Shadow Awaits, out in September…

#firstworldwar

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/women-i...

It isn’t just about cricket! Last month a very good friend of mine, Annie Chave, published her first book, Cricket Changed My Life, which has been very well received in cricketing circles. But it’s not all about cricket… well, of...

This book is about cricket and so much more…
@anniechave.bsky.social

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/it-isn-...

What is a ‘woman’s’ book? When the journalist, Rebecca West, published her first novel in 1918, it was dismissed by critics as a ‘woman’s’ book and too ‘feminine’. The reasons for this are clear. The action of The Return of th...

This time a blog about what we might expect from a woman’s book…

#reading

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/what-is...

That time of year again

Topsham ferry this morning. So lovely to have great walks on our doorstep.

New blog thinking about gender and reading. What is a ‘man’s’ book?
#reading #historicalfiction

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/what-is...

Fantastic way to start the week…

Reeds and trees and sky…

Thank you

I agree actually. I felt the later timeline was too simplistic, but the evocation off the first day of the Somme is great.
Mine is a bit spookier too.
I don’t have a date yet, but later this year.

It’s a lot more working class, but yes, it fits into the same genre.

Dawlish Warren, Devon, looking good at the weekend.

Looks interesting! Report back?

Artist or Wife? Tirzah Garwood in the 1930s Staying in the first half of the twentieth century, I have recently read Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood, which was edited by Garwood’s daughter, Anne Ullman, and publis...

A new blog reflecting on the challenges facing a woman artist in the 1930s… the autobiography of Tirzah Garwood.
#reading

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/artist-...

Revisiting Forbidden Zones I’m going to focus on the First World War for a bit in anticipation of the publication later this year of my new novel, Where No Shadow Stays. By turns trench narrative, ghost story, murder mystery an...

First World War blog anticipating my new novel, Where No Shadow Stays, coming later this year…

www.aksmith.co.uk/post/revisit...

An alternative history of Richard III. He lives! What’s not to like?

www.amazon.co.uk/Solace-Commo...