Hotel Arcadia

New literary thriller by sunnysingh_nw3. The Independent: 'penetrative, addictive...shoots from the hip.'

[Hotel Arcadia @HotelArcadia_]

Have you seen #HotelArcadia's brand new #booktrailer by @FeministFilming yet? https://t.co/OXDUTJEucF It's terrific. And terrifying :-)

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

A tiny rant: am fucking tired of writers (esp white feminist ones) going on about how we need ‘complex’ representations of women . Yeah well @HotelArcadia_ has a woman of colour as protagonist. She’s a war photographer with PTSD and intimacy issues. How many of you will read her?

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Thread. I loved her work. My novel @HotelArcadia_ was my tribute to women journalists like her who do not get the credit, notice, recognition they deserve!

Rest in power!

[NomDePlume @NomDePume]

@lizharvey99 @sunnysingh_n6 @HotelArcadia_ Saw this tweet before the rest of the thread, DrLiz and thought you were talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg: https://t.co/ERqH4aceSN

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

@Gerry0504 @HotelArcadia_ This was on my desk constantly while I was working on it: https://t.co/cedRacEhhP

[#Gadgee Gerry @Gerry0504]

@sunnysingh_n6 & thanks to #Twitter I was able to find out this fascinating background.
Now I need to go & re-read @HotelArcadia_ in the light of this.

[#Gadgee Gerry @Gerry0504]

'PS every shot described except the last one in @HotelArcadia_ is a real war photograph'

Even more Impressive.
I'd like to see those...maybe you should produce a new edition including photos, if pos?

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

So so many. Gerda Taro, Lee Miller, Bourke-White. But also Tim Page, Kyoichi Sawada, Co Rentmeester. Sam has her own style but she knows her war photography history 😁

PS every shot described except the last one in @HotelArcadia_ is a real war photograph

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Fair point but Sam in @HotelArcadia_ is a huge fan of single malts. But then again she’s also a fan of beds in five star hotels. And she’s tough enough to report on a terrorist siege from the inside 😁

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Fast forward a few years. In the meantime, I wrote @HotelArcadia_ and the #BachchanBook.

But I also kept researching something that really fascinates me: how non-combatants are impacted by politics of violence.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

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[Banned Books Week UK @BannedWeekUK]

New event just added:

Beyond Censorship: Power, silencing and resistance on 28 September 2018 with @AuthorsClub, @jhalakprize , Media Diversified @WritersofColour and @IndexCensorship

#BannedBooksWeek #BookLoversDay

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Heads up: @jhalakprize @AuthorsClub @WritersofColour are organising this brilliant event for #BannedBooksWeek

[Index on Censorship @IndexCensorship]

28 September: Beyond censorship: Power, silencing and resistance w/ @AuthorsClub @WritersofColour @jhalakprize #BannedBooksWeekUK #BannedBooksWeek https://t.co/hUpjDLN2P5 via @BannedWeekUK

[Authors' Club @AuthorsClub]

Delighted to host this brilliant event. #BannedBooksWeek

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Ancient arches in the #CitedeConflans #savoie #conflans #history https://t.co/au2rGFuhyC

[#Gadgee Gerry @Gerry0504]

@sunnysingh_n6 I just finished this:
@HotelArcadia_
Now waiting your next
#SunnyOnTheMoney
Recommended
#SummerReading

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

OMG!! Tim Page just wrote to me about @HotelArcadia_.

I pored over his Vietnam photos for months, read everything about him as part of my research for that novel.

#accomplishment

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

I guess 'fan girl' isn't the right word given Page's photographs are often quite grim but I have loved his work since I was a child.

So many amazing war photographers provided inspiration for @HotelArcadia_ and Page was a major one.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Also means that despite being considered very filmic @HotelArcadia_ will likely never be on screen unless of course someone like @ava or @shondarhimes or another filmmaker of colour does it.

Which takes us back to the top of this thread....