Bella Bathurst
Bella Bathurst (born in 1969 in London)[1] is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her book The Lighthouse Stevensons won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award.[2][3]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Bathurst was born in London and presently lives in Scotland.[4][5] She lost "her hearing in her twenties and then unexpectedly regaining it twelve years later," which she explores in her 2017 book Sound.[6][7][8]
Aside from writing, Bathurst has worked as a freelance journalist, photographer, and illustrator.[1] Her writing has appeared in such publications as The Guardian,[9] The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Sunday Times, and The Washington Post.
Awards
[edit | edit source]The Lighthouse Stevensons won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award[2][3] and was nominated for the 1999 Guardian First Book Award.[5][10] List Magazine named it one of the "100 Best Scottish Books of all time."[5] Booklist and Publishers Weekly gave the book starred reviews.[11][12]
Special was longlisted for the Orange Prize[6] and was generally well-received among British press.
Sound received starred reviews from Shelf Awareness.[13]
Publications
[edit | edit source]- The Lighthouse Stevensons (1999)
- Special (2002)
- The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th-Century to the Present Day (2005)
- The Bicycle Book (2011)
- The Omega Point: The search for the secret of human consciousness (2015)
- Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found (2017)
- Field Work: What Land Does to People What People Do to Land (2021)
References
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External links
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