Andrew Blackman
On the Holloway Road – free sample
My publisher, Legend Press, is offering a free sample of the first two chapters of On the Holloway Road as a special Christmas giveaway. Click here to access it – not sure how long it’ll be available.
Merry Christmas to all my readers, and thanks for all the wonderful comments over the year [...]
Guardian feature on independent bookshops
I’ve lamented the decline of independent bookshops on this site in the past, so was pleased to see a Guardian special section on independent bookshops last weekend. It’s available online – I was particularly interested in the listing of all the independent bookshops in London, but there are also similar articles for the other [...]
“The Sense of an Ending” by Julian Barnes
I bought a signed copy at Highgate Bookshop, took it home and read it from cover to cover without stopping. That’s partly because it’s a short book (150 pages, with fairly large type and liberal use of white space) but also because it really drew me in and made me want to read more. [...]
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I am the author of the novel “On the Holloway Road”, published by Legend Press in February 2009. The book has won the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary and the Novel Beginnings First Chapter Contest, and has been shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize.
I recently moved back to the UK after spending six years in New York, where I worked as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. My work has also been published in Monthly Review, the Cincinnati Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Seattle Times, Tampa Tribune, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Post Road, Carillon, Smoke, and in books by Twenty Stories Publishing and Leaf Books.
If you want to know more about me, try this BBC radio interview, this blog interview, or this newspaper profile. Or drop me an email.
