Dieser Autor erforscht die komplexen Verbindungen zwischen Individuen und ihrer Umwelt. Seine Werke sind bekannt für ihre scharfen Einblicke in die menschliche Psyche und ihre einfühlsame Darstellung von Emotionen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf sorgfältigem atmosphärischem Aufbau und detaillierten Beschreibungen von Schauplätzen, die die inneren Zustände der Charaktere widerspiegeln. Die Prosa zeichnet sich durch ihre lyrische Qualität und poetische Sprache aus, die den Leser in tiefgründige Reflexionen über Leben und Identität hineinzieht.
Exploring childhood secrets and the pursuit of hidden treasure, this novel delves into the lengths individuals will go to safeguard or uncover what they consider valuable. It intricately weaves themes of innocence, desire, and the complexities of human relationships, revealing how the past can shape present actions and motivations.
A wonderfully rich and absorbing historical novel following the fortunes of a struggling artist around the courtly world of Elizabethan London. Norfolk, the 22nd year of Elizabeth I's reign. An ambitious young painter strikes out from his humble beginnings for the teeming City of London. Haunted by the image of his bride's gruesome death, and fuelled by his desire to portray the splendour of life, he sets his sights on a place at the Queen's glittering court. Yet talent alone does not open the doors to royal favour, and the artist is thrown into the petty intrigues and rivalries of the English portrait schools. Here he meets Kat, a legendary courtesan with an unusual proclivity for paint. Their complex alliance leads them into a world of bribery, politics and power, and a court peopled by the celebrated figures of the age. A Likeness is a masterly portrayal of Elizabethan England, the lives of noblemen and servants, artists and courtesans. It is also a deliciously erotic tale of two young people's desires and a thriller of intrigue and double-dealing.
Sonia Overall is a novelist, poet and lecturer based in Kent. The Art of Walking is a collection of responses to movement and place, reflecting the writer's interest in the relationship between walking and creativity, self and setting.
Sonia Overall invites us to see walking as a creative writing method. She sets out a particular form which she calls walking-writing and suggests ways to gather materials, submit to the sensory, explore your home like a tourist, and scour the streets like a metal-detector in search of the hidden, the forgotten and the overlooked.
In Heavy Time academic, writer and psychogeographer Sonia Overall examines what pilgrimage can mean to the secular walker as she journeys from Canterbury to Walsingham, via her home town of Ely.
'Penelope is an English professor who finds herself obsessed with Ernest Hemingway's last novel 'The garden of Eden' as she becomes infatuated with a young male student. Decades earlier Ernest Hemingway is in Cuba writing 'The garden of Eden', a strange and prescient story that reveals the secrets of his own sexuality. And Catherine, the young wife in 'The garden of Eden', speaks to us as she test the confines of her fictional existence - and rebels against the whims of her creator. - cover