Tag: photographs

• THE BARRA BOY BOOK TOUR

  Last weekend, I hit the road with my new novel, ‘The Barra Boy’. Two book events and signings were organised, one at Waterstones Oban and one on the island of Barra itself, at the Buth Bharraigh, the local community shop. Thanks to another rail strike, it was a drive up to Oban, taking in Loch…

  Iain Kelly

  26/08/2022

  book review, Books, creative writing, Fiction, Literature, novel, Publishing, the barra boy

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• THE BARRA BOY INSPIRATIONS & LOCATIONS

  One week to go until the official publication day of ‘The Barra Boy’. I’ve been thinking back to the visit to Barra, almost 7 years ago now, that inspired the book. Although the characters and story are fictional, many of the locations are based on my memories of that visit. So, I’ve had a dig…

  Iain Kelly

  21/06/2022

  Books, creative writing, Literature, novel, photography, the barra boy, Writing

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• WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?

  

  It doesn’t seem that long ago. The place hasn’t changed, but you have. We used to come here as a family and you ran around the cobbled street and dashed in and out of the old shops and took a trip on the old trams and we had lunch in the cafe and watched the…

  Iain Kelly

  02/09/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• SURROGATES

  

  Black and white images from the past. Not hers, someone else’s. The smiling portrait of a young woman, an elderly couple in front of their house, a grandfather, a brother and sister. A family, a historical document of a happy life. $1 for the basket. The seller had no idea who the people in the…

  Iain Kelly

  09/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• G IS FOR GLASGOW, GREAT BRITAIN

  

  A STORY OF THE GARDEN FESTIVAL IN GLASGOW, GREAT BRITAIN It had been a glorious summer. Glasgow didn’t get many of them. Perhaps it was fate that the year of the Garden Festival was the warmest and driest summer that anyone could remember. The festival was meant to regenerate the wastelands that had been left…

  Iain Kelly

  07/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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