Author Archives: Beth Wren
Poetry Corner | Poem #26
Adventure is calling and it always sounds like the mountains for some reason. I can’t wait for the next great escape.
The London Diaries: Snapshots
I must take about 5 million crappy photos on my phone a day, and it gives me an infinite amount of pleasure to look back on them as little snapshots of moments and memories. Here are a few during my first couple of months of living in London. Please note the coffee cups and feel […]
Poetry Corner | Poem #25: Dreams & Dungarees
Written somewhere on a bus in the middle of Laos and I remember the moment of writing it as much as the summer of dreams and dungarees.
The Diary of an Unpublished Author #5
Dear Diary, This one’s all about redrafting. I’ve got mixed feelings towards the process, mainly because on one hand it’s inexplicably important and so completely necessary, and on the other it’s inexplicably hard work and so completely soul-destroying. I’ve started to lose count of the amount of times I have gone through and edited my […]
The London Diaries: Richmond Park
Two weeks ago I moved to South London and I’ve honestly never been happier and more excited to start exploring new areas of my favourite city. And so I guess it only makes sense to start recording my adventures on my blog: welcome to The London Diaries! Yep, I’m going to be a massive tourist in […]
Poetry Corner | Poem #24
I think this one might be a work in progress, but I like it all the same. You are yours and yours alone, and you are whole and perfect in that sense. Just think.
Travel Diaries: Barcelona
For someone as pale and pasty as myself, I think I’ve done a pretty great job of chasing the sun around the world this year. From my earlier travels I cleverly avoided the post-Christmas winter slump, returning just in time for the so-called British summertime. And now, a couple of weekends ago, I set off […]
Review: The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
I embarked upon my fourth Hardy novel in the wake of another viewing of the wonderful Far from the Madding Crowd, hoping there might be a little happiness in it for its characters – praying for more Bathsheba than Tess. The Woodlanders is marvellously Hardy-esque and in that there is something comfortable and familiar. There is the usual […]
Review: How to be a Heroine, Samantha Ellis
The third book on my Summer Reading List. On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, passionate Cathy; but her friend found Cathy silly, a snob, while courageous Jane makes her own way. […]
Bethany Wren 