My new Brighton novel will be launched at Brighton’s Have A Word in March
My new novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames is now officially published and generally available from online sites as well as bookstores and it’s now time to announce the book’s Brighton launch which…
I like being a two-novel writer.
Copies of my new Brighton novel arrived today – hurray! Now that I have the actual physical objects, I really feel like it’s been published. Stephen Dearsley, from my first novel, Stephen…
My new Brighton novel is published!
Great news! My new novel has arrived. It’s always a thrilling moment to see it in print after the three years of drafts and redrafts. Yes, it really exists – that’s my…
Come and hear me read from my new novel – published this month.
I shall be reading from my about to be published novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames, (Ward Wood Publishing – http://wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-fiction-colin-bell-blue-notes-still-frames.htm ) on Thursday the 12th January here in Lewes UK. If you…
Here comes another honours list – more knights-in-armour and pantomime dames to join the lords and ladies in our divided society.
So the great British honours system has announced the latest list of honourees today. Known as the New Years Honours, it bestows ludicrously anachronistic and socially divisive titles to British citizens seen…
My website is eight years old today – this was the way we were in 2008
An optimistic Wolfiewolfgang in 2008 It was eight years ago today that I started this website – it seems a world away from now as we look to another new year…
Three reasons not to be merry this Christmas.
I’m mostly quite a cheerful optimistic type of person but, really, looking at the world as we move towards Christmas, what is there to be cheerful and optimistic about? Well, I just…
So Donald Trump isn’t the Wicked Witch of the West, he’s just the Wizard of Oz.
So Donald Trump isn’t the raging demon of our nightmares after-all. Or so we are meant to believe. Watching him at the meeting with President Obama at the White House yesterday, he…
What does BREXIT mean Mrs May?
BREXIT effigy from Lewes Bonfire 2016 First we are told that Parliament doesn’t need to decide Britain’s future over leaving the European Union and now we are informed that our High…
Numbers count in Fibonacci Poetry – and for The Fib Review’s anniversary issue.
I’m celebrating today and it’s not all about numbers. They figure strongly in writing the usually short poetry form the Fibonacci poem which is based on the so-called Fibonacci Sequence of numbers.…
Instagram and I have had our first row. (We still love each other really.)
I’ve had a lot of fun with the new technologies that have revolutionised our lives over the last twenty years or so. I’ve recently been marking anniversaries (big ones) celebrating early online…
Wolfie’s guide to writing poetry with complete list of necessary tools.
Today is National Poetry Day here in the UK, so I thought I’d mark it – as I did yesterday, by working on a new poem. I tried to do what mostly…
The tragic departure of a much-loved beard – Wolfie has to hide his face in shame.
It was all a terrible mistake! Honestly, it wasn’t deliberate. I was just trimming my beard, as you do…. then the unspeakable happened. I’d got the wrong setting on the razor…
Octopuses trying to save our Bees – watch the video.
My son Adam Bell’s Brighton-based band Octopuses are releasing their new video today, Not The Bees, which is a witty, characteristically zany and rather beautiful song about, yes, bees. Behind the humour…
My Fibonacci Poem, Brief Encounter, is transformed into a miniature movie.
In a collaboration with the multi talented American film-maker Joseph Nussbaum, another of my Fibonacci poems has been turned into a miniature movie using the virtual world of Second Life as…
I am Colin Bell, an Anglo-Irish European citizen based in the UK. I am a novelist and poet, previously a TV producer-director of arts programmes for British, American, German and Japanese broadcasters. I am also known as the blogger Wolfie Wolfgang. My two novels are Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) and Blue Notes, Still Frames (Ward Wood Publishing, 2017). They are both available in paperback or as Kindle editions. My debut poetry collection, Remembering Blue (Ward Wood Publishing 2019) is now available. My poetry has been published in various journals and anthologies in the UK and the USA.
Remembering Blue is the debut poetry collection by Colin Bell, whose novels Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love and Blue Notes, Still Frames are also published by Ward Wood.
'These poems were written during ten years recovering from a life-threatening brain haemorrhage.
'The poems began before I left hospital. They document, often tangentially, that period, from awakening out of a six-hour coma, through several years of rehabilitation, remembering and decoding - the good things as well as the bad: childhood and adolescence revisited, adult relationships reassessed, and most significantly, what is important now that I am fully recovered.
'Awakening from that death-like coma was a rebirth. When things were difficult, it helped to remember blue.'
- Colin Bell
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It's Brighton in 1994 Busker Joe lives on the beach with his flute and his troubled Goth girlfriend, Victoria, who’s a singer. He borrows a bath towel for her from Rachel and Alan, a prosperous young couple from the rapidly growing world of computers. The meeting will change all their lives…and other lives too.
There’s Harry, a beach bum drummer; Nico, a transient American who takes revealing photographs of passers-by; Kanti and Diep, mysterious artist twins from Nepal; Lionel and John who reveal more than their bodies on the nudist beach; and pub landladies Jacqueline and Rosemary who top up their income by dabbling in the sex trade.
Joe is always there, somewhere, weaving more than melodies with his flute.
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It's 1967 and the start of the Summer of Love. In Brighton, Stephen Dearsley is tempted and intimidated by the way his generation is casting off traditional ways of dress along with the old ways of thinking. His ambition to become a biographer is fulfilled when he's commissioned to research the life story of the mysterious Austin Randolph.
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