I’m fully aware that my requirement for an advance is not likely to be taken seriously by a number of publishers, and that’s fine with me because, well, the current system is doing me no favours.
Excerpt: Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.
Hyde Park’s unique and increasingly deathly history as a neighbourhood that exposes the collusion between a major research university that continues to voraciously gobble up chunks of prime real estate while expelling its long-time residents.
