| |
Welcome
to Sam North's baseroom - archive of text and images |
|
|
|
The
Irony of The Road
Movie is that the weak leave, but only the strong survive
From the earliest days of American cinema,
the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and
the image of America to the world. By my definition, the road
movie is a vehicle for either one or a small group of individuals
who seek to escape the world they are living in and set out
towards redemption on the road. |
|
|
|
New-
May 2008 - Order now be one of the first to read it
Mean
Tide by Sam North
'Extraordinary
novel about a child's psychic awakening'
ISBN: 978-1-4092-0354-4
'An engaging, unusual and completely engrossing
read'
- Beverly Birch author of 'Rift'
Kids can survive anything, they say. Oliver,
aged twelve, has a missing father in Africa, his mother has
had a breakdown, and he is recovering from chemo. He is sent
to live with his only relative. On a foggy day, one bald boy,
with his cat, Flop, arrives at his Grandma's house at the water's
edge in Greenwich. Oliver discovers to his horror that his Grandma,
a famous psychic, hates cats. Her housekeeper, Lena loathes
kids, and silent Justine seems to hate everyone. Add crazy Harriet,
who has seen every fortune teller in London; Aura, a mysterious,
aspiring beautiful actress and Bullet, the homeless kid with
a very mean streak, trouble can't be far behind. When Oliver
and Justine find a beautiful dog with it's throat cut washed
up on the riverbank, Oliver feels a strange connection to this
dead animal and so begins his own induction into a psychic world.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Bernado Bertolucci retrospective -
Bernardo Bertolucci is the one
of the key influences of why I love cinema. When I first discovered
him in 1971 his work made a huge impact on me as a film student.
He began with Before the Revolution in 1964 a story about
University intellectual who has sided with the communist rebels
in Italian society and it being a Bertolucci film, he is also
having an incestuous relationship with his aunt. Filmed when
he was just 22 it revealed his skills as a brilliant stylist,
if not a great storyteller. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Researching
the Novel and when to stop and write
For
future historical novelists writing about the present, they
will find blogs of overwhelming trivial details of just
about every single person on the planet. They may well find
it hard to penetrate six billion souls and make meaning
out it, but the information will be there.
*
Coming to the Winchester Writers Conference? See you there
June 28th 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Sam North is a Senior
Lecturer in Creative Writing & Course Leader for the
MA in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth
- now in its fourth successful year 
|
Since
1999 Sam has been running the on-line magazine Hackwriters.com
a site for international writers in all subject areas. In
2001 as Hackwriters won Skylines Travel Writers of the year
award, nominated for the New Statesman education award in
2006. It continues as a place for new and 'experienced'
writers to showcase their work. As of writing there are
4200 articles posted on site.
email: sam.north at port.ac.uk
|
Looking for
the other writer
Sam North who lives in Devon?
link here
|
| |
|
|
|
© www.samnorth.com - all rights reserved 2008
|
|
|
