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I was very excited to learn that Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering, in which I have a chapter, has won recognition at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It has been named winner in the Parenting and Anthology categories and is third place Grand Prize winner in the nonfiction category. This is an [...] If you are thinking of visiting Kyrgyzstan I can recommend the Odyssey guide to the Kyrgyz Republic. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kyrgyz-Republic-Heart-Central-Odyssey/dp/9622177913/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222266223&sr=8-1 The third edition has recently been put together by dedicated authors Rowan Stewart and Susie Weldon and was launched last week at Daunt Books in London. I am especially excited about this guide because some of my photographs have been [...] One reason I hope this baby isn’t too late is that I’m speaking at a Kyrgyz evening on Wednesday 14th May. The event is at Stanfords travel bookshop in Bristol where I will be joining Rowan Stewart and Susie Weldon, authors of the Odyssey guide to the Kyrgyz Republic in talking about Kyrgyzstan. We will be [...] Great excitement – I am published in The Telegraph. An article which I have written about the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan has been published in The Weekly Telegraph and is on-line at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/01/15/kyrgyzstan.xml&page=1 I’m sorry, I’ve not written for ages. My only excuse is that I’ve been busy: busy marketing Revolution Baby and busy preparing for Christmas with my two children, but I’ll tell you about that another time. I was on the radio again yesterday – is this becoming tedious? This time I was on GWR Bristol, on [...] I just listened to myself on the radio – and was pleasantly surprised! I was expecting to cringe but instead felt proud that I actually sounded as eloquent and authoritative as other radio guests. If you are now intrigued you can go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2007/11/23/revolutionbaby_feature.shtml to listen again, read a feature article and look at some [...] On Monday I recorded my first radio interview. It’s going to be serialised every night next week (starting Monday 26th November) on the Drive show on Radio Bristol. You can listen on-line (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/local_radio/) and I’m told I’ll be on shortly after 6pm. I’m very nervous about how I’ll come across. A spoken interview is scary. When [...] The launch of Revolution Baby: Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan on Saturday was fantastic! As we were setting up, the room filling with two yurts and colourful craft stalls, I suddenly felt excited that it was all coming together. I had wanted to create a Kyrgyz festival where people could learn something of the country. [...] My mind has gone numb. In four hours I am launching Revolution Baby and yet my mind is empty. I’m hoping that everything I need is packed in the car. I’m hoping that the words I was planning to say will come back to me when the time comes for my speech. I feel out [...] No, not mine, although I’m only able to write this now because Ben is in bed and Tom playing very nicely on his own with cars, trains and a track. My title refers to the pre-school children who I talked to about Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday. They sat in a neat semi-circle in silence, possibly a stunned [...] |
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