Anita Roy
writer | editor
I am a writer, editor, publisher, storyteller and performer.
Being a bit of a mongrel, a mudblood, a half-and-half, mixed race, betwixt-and-between sort of gal has shaped my outlook, my humour and my writing as much as my skin colour.
On this site you can find over 100 of my published articles – and links to the some of the books that I've either edited or contributed to. Hope you enjoy reading them; let me know what you think.Recently published
- A Year in Kingcombe – August
22 September 2018It was, in Thoreau’s lovely phrase, the afternoon of the year. The hills slumbered under the wide blue sky, looking more like Tuscany than Dorset, alternately suntanned and bleached...… [more]
On the Shelf #53 – Life Writing and the Writing Life
10 September 2018Three Morning Pages filled with an ode to a hairbrush, or shopping lists, or in-depth “journalling” — there is a lot that we write on life’s behalf … [more]
A Year in Kingcombe – July
10 August 2018The hottest, driest June on record had simply extended unbroken into July, and apart from one brief downpour, which barely managed to soak the topsoil, looked set to unroll till the end of summer.… [more]
A Year in Kingcombe – June
10 August 2018It was a typical English summer’s day, in that it felt like early November and I was regretting not bringing my gloves. The wind clawed through the sycamore and chestnuts, yanking their leaves back at the wrist and setting their silver undersides streaming, while above them, the hilltops vanished into the low-bellied clouds.… [more]
Featured articles
Bookless in Bagdad, Shashi Tharoor
27 February 2005Q: Lay a lot of columns end to end and what do you get? A: A lot of columns laid… [more]
On the Shelf #4 – William Fiennes
21 April 2014What do geese think? We might never understand animals, but they are profoundly similar to us...… [more]
Ticket-Passport-Money
13 December 1998Long before man had constructed the machinery of flight he had dreamt of it: Icarus and his waxy wings, Pegasus… [more]
The London Jungle Book, Bhajju Shyam
12 December 2007In 2002, Bhajju Shyam, a young artist from the Gond tribal community of central India travelled to London to spend… [more]
