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Bella Bathurst

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Bella Bathurst (born 1969)[1] is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her book The Lighthouse Stevensons won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award.[2][3]

Biography

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Bathurst was born in London and presently lives in Scotland.[4][5] She lost "her hearing in her twenties ... unexpectedly regaining it twelve years later," which she explored 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

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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

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  • 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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  1. 1 2 "Bathurst, Bella 1969–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  2. 1 2 "The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th Century to the Present Day by Bella Bathurst". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  3. 1 2 "Somerset Maugham Awards". The Society of Authors. 2020-05-08. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  4. ↑ "Bella Bathurst". Granta. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  5. 1 2 3 "Bella Bathurst - Literature". British Council. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  6. 1 2 "Bella Bathurst". AM Heath Literary Agents. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  7. ↑ Kim, Stefani (2017-12-15). "Greystone Books to Publish 'Sound,' a Story of 'Silence and Noise,' by Bella Bathurst". The Hearing Review. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  8. ↑ Shulman, Nicola. "All ears: 'Stories of Hearing Lost and Found' by Bella Bathurst reviewed by Nicola Shulman". The Oldie. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  9. ↑ "Bella Bathurst". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  10. ↑ "Guardian first book award: all the winners". The Guardian. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson". Booklist. 1999-09-01. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  12. ↑ "The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  13. ↑ "Sound: A Memoir of Hearing Lost and Found". Shelf Awareness. November 2, 2018. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
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