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
Wild Wales
10 October 2018A walk in wild Wales along the Pembrokeshire coastal path involves close encounters with puffins, seals and shearwaters... … [more]
On the Shelf #54 – Travelling and arriving
8 October 2018Imagine life stranded in an airport for 18 years. The strange open-ended true life parable of Sir, Alfred. … [more]
A Year in Kingcombe – September
25 September 2018The whole mists-and-mellow-fruitfulness schtick: the scent of wood smoke, the fungi popping up all over, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the squirrels squirrelling... There’s something about autumn’s inescapable sweet melancholy, the pas de deux of death and life, the decay that presages seedburst, the nourishing of the earth by the leaf-fall from the sky: I just love it. … [more]
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]
Featured articles
On the Shelf #2 – Geoff Dyer
4 March 2014The Self-Hinder Author. Finding inspiration in the most unlikely places and people... … [more]
Jaisalmer: Between the Desert and the Sea
13 March 2007Seen through the windows of an a/c compartment, the fortress of Jaisalmer appears to be another unidentifiable stain on marginally… [more]
On the Shelf #12 – The Little Prince
19 December 2014Seventy-two years after its publication, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince still enchants.… [more]
Funny Things are Everywhere…
7 November 2005“From there to here From here to there Funny things are everywhere.” Never a truer word was spoke. And who… [more]
