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Aliya

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About Me

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I'm a cross-genre writer of novels and short stories.

'Light Reading' will be published by Macmillan New Writing in February 2008. 'Three Things About Me' was published by MNW in 2006.

My Interests

Music:

Elvis, Nick Drake, Mozart, Stevie Wonder, Pulp, Cat Stevens, Miles Davis, The Cure, Roberta Flack, Suede, Roy Orbison and Rimsky-Korsakov. Now That's What I Call A Mix Tape.

Movies:

I do directors more than films. Top of the list is Hitchcock. Orson Welles, Powell & Pressburger, John Carpenter and Tim Burton are great too. Clouzot had a few good moments.

Books:

Rebecca, London Fields, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Player of Games, The Golden Notebook, Oscar and Lucinda, The Rainbow and The Spire are all great.

My Blog

Top Five Chicken Incidents

1. Staying in a hotel in Madeira at Eastertime, I  was confronted with the spectacle of hundreds of chicks, real ones, running around an enclosure shaped like an easter egg in the foyer. It was c...
Posted by Aliya on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:57:00 PST

Top Five Literary Characters I Would like to Be

I have always suffered from an excess of imagination and the ability to use it to escape from the mundane. Therefore, small tasks occasionally get forgotten, tasks such as gardening, shopping, go...
Posted by Aliya on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:21:00 PST

Top Five Restaurants in England

Apologies in advance to vegetarians. Thinking about food, digging food, loving food, yumity yum, eating choccie biccies and drinking earl grey, and categorising the five places I'd like to be right no...
Posted by Aliya on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:59:00 PST

Top Five Donald Sutherland films

In a move perpendicular to anything I'm actually thinking about or working on at the moment, I've decided to post my top five films starring Donald Sutherland. I love Donald Sutherland. He gives good ...
Posted by Aliya on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:07:00 PST

Top Five Books About Teenage Hormone Disasters

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling. This is when the children stop being children and start being vicious little oiks, determined to get into each others' pants and ruin any social e...
Posted by Aliya on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:24:00 PST

Top Five Things That Happened to me Over Christmas

Here's a top five of things of interest that happened to me over this holiday period:- I revealed to a close friend who had only seen Star Wars episodes one and two (and had been saving up the whole 3...
Posted by Aliya on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:56:00 PST

Top Five Worst Films Ever

There are some great films out there - moving, witty, insightful, life-changing reels of magic available at a bargain price if you still belong in VHS land rather than up the beanstalk in DVD heaven. ...
Posted by Aliya on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:37:00 PST

My website

You can find my main website at http://www.aliyawhiteley.com/main.htm
Posted by Aliya on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:37:00 PST

My Blog

I keep a blog with fellow brown-haired, left-handed author Neil Ayres at http://pootle-and-rat.livejournal.com/.
Posted by Aliya on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:36:00 PST