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
- STOP PRESS * A Year in Kingcombe is now live!
19 October 2019It's all written, illustrated and designed - now all I need is to raise the money for printing and A… [more]
On the Shelf #63: Does the World Need Another Book?
25 September 2019Never get used to this – this earth, this world, these creatures, these plants, these clouds, that rain, those birds, this life. … [more]
On the Shelf #64: David Abram – The Spell of the Sensuous
25 September 2019Why David Abram’s study on the nature of consciousness has critical resonance for a warming planet and business-as-usual attitudes… [more]
On the Shelf #61: Gentleman Jack
5 August 2019Anne Lister was many things — diarist, explorer, architect, mountaineer, lesbian. Conventional was never among them.… [more]
On the Shelf #60: Rain
5 August 2019Treat rainfall like music; hear it attentively, with pleasure.… [more]
Featured articles
On the trail of J.R. Ackerley
29 April 2008Retracing the steps of J.R. Ackerley, author of Hindoo Holiday… [more]
Here be Monsters
24 November 2014The best children’s books, and the most compelling tales, are those where the wildness and the danger coexist with the comfort and the security.… [more]
Love Letters
14 June 2000"Dear...". No, no that won't do. Too formal. "My dear..." Oh god, now I sound like his mother. "My dearest..."… [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]
Lancelot Ribeiro
3 January 2017Far more than F.N. Souza's younger brother, Lancelot Ribeiro was an extraordinary painter in his own right. A view of the artist's life and works to coincide with a year-long programme and exhibition of his works, October 2016. … [more]
