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* Add Joolz as a Friend on Facebook: look for Joolz Denby.

* This year will be Joolz' 25th year as a spoken-word artiste at Glastonbury Festival: with over 100 performances of her writing at the festival, she is one of Glastonbury's most prolific performers.

*Joolz latest spoken word album, Spirit Stories, with music by Justin Sullivan is now available for download/mail order: please visit The Shop @ www.newmodelarmy.org Buyer Reviews: 'Two listens now. Still got gooseflesh. Poetry to touch the soul. And that voice. Hell, Joolz could read the phone book and leave you entranced. The music just provides the backdrop, but Joolz' voice is the main instrument here.' Ifran. '(the track) Boy You Need the Road - WOW.' St Alfonzo. (reviews taken from the Noticeboard at www.newmodelarmy.org). Magazine Reviews: 'Joolz Denby remains one of the real treasures of the British literary scene and "Spirit Stories", her new album, is quite simply an essential listen. . . Mesmerisingly atmospheric throughout. 'Bubblegum Slut Fanzine. Issue 32.

*She is an award-winning, multi-nominated novelist; for her debut novel Stone Baby (HarperCollins) Joolz won the Crime Writer's Association New Crime Writer Of The Year and was shortlisted for the John Creasey Award. She was also awarded the audio book industry's prestigious 'Earphone Award' (USA) for her brilliant unabridged recording of Stone Baby. Her third novel, Billie Morgan (Serpent's Tail) was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize and also the Crime Writer's Association Dagger In The Library award.

*Her last novel Borrowed Light (Serpent's Tail) was released in February 2006 to enormous critical acclaim and her latest collection of poetry and short fiction Pray For Us Sinners (Comma Press), released in late 2005, is already in its second re-print. She has recently finished her new - as yet unpublished - novel, 'Wild Thing' (www.myspace.com/wildthingjoolzdenby) and has started working on another novel (working title) 'Midnight At The Rat N' Roses' and a new collection of poetry and short stories.

*Joolz tours the world giving highly acclaimed dramatic readings of her work (both poetry and prose). She is noted for the emotive, musical quality of her voice and the skill with which she presents the characters she has written about. She won the prestigious US audio book industry Earphone Award for her unabridged recording of her novel 'Stone Baby' and is considered to be the UK's premier woman spoken-word artist ('the Queen Of British Spoken Word'). In Britain she reads throughout the year at venues ranging from The Royal Albert Hall and the House of Commons to rock music festivals (twenty-two years as a performer at Glastonbury) arts centres, Universities, rock clubs and coffee houses. She is highly respected for her work with prison inmates.

* Joolz is an expert in the field of commissioned public poetry, having written poetry for Yorkshire Forward, The Royal Armouries, Alchemy Asian Arts, Yorkshire Museums Service, Bradford Capital Of Culture Bid and The Captain Cook Museum amongst others.
*Joolz is an extremely experienced and valued broadcaster, having worked regularly for radio of all kinds such as BBC Radio Four (including many broadcasts for Woman's Hour) and BBC Radio One. She has also a]]> female Colchester but best known for living in Bradford 1955/04/09 1615418 1145380 1852428651 9781852428655 8 <![CDATA[Billie Morgan]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181389712m/1145380.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1145380.Billie_Morgan 4.04 27 "Denby is clearly a writer who has the capacity to get under the skin of the world she inhabits and to translate it for her readers."-Val McDermid

Billie is in her forties, running a little jewelry shop in Bradford, trying to live a quiet life, trying to forget the past. Because Billie has a lot of past to forget. She was a biker chick, one of the Devil's Own, the speed- and acid-fueled road demons. Her life was hurtling out of control, and it ended in murder. Now, years later, she has to face the consequences.

Joolz Denby was born in 1955. She married an outlaw biker at 19. She lives in Bradford, Yorkshire.

]]> 232477 4.11 83 12 675610 1852429054 9781852429058 1 <![CDATA[Borrowed Light]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177025698m/675610.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/675610.Borrowed_Light 4.33 12 "One of the most talented and humane novelists that we have."-John Connolly

Astra Sharp has a part-time job in the café run by her best friend, Connie, and a boyfriend who plays in a band. Life's not perfect, but it's not too bad. Then Connie's little sister Angel shows up and everything starts to go to hell. It isn't Angel's fault if everyone falls in love with her: gorgeous Luke, boring Tim the accountant, Astra's kid sister Gita. Set in scenic Cornwall, Borrowed Light is Daphne Du Maurier recast in a Quiksilver world.

Joolz Denby was born in 1955: at the age of 19, she married an outlaw biker-a member of the Satan's Slaves. Billie Morgan was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005.

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Cathi Unsworth moved to Ladbroke Grove in 1987 and has stayed there ever since. She began a career in rock writing with Sounds and Melody Maker, before co-editing the arts journal Purr and then Bizarre magazine. Her first novel, The Not Knowing, was published by Serpent's Tail in August 2005.

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Joolz has published five collections of poetry and four novels. The first recordings of her work set to music were made by Jah Wobble in the early 1980s but it was inevitable that she should also choose to work with NMA's Justin Sullivan. ‘Spirit Stories’ is their third album together.

Seventeen years later comes ‘Spirit Stories’. Joolz’ poetry weaves stories of the strange, fascinating and often dark places of the human soul – while the music creates a perfect, emotionally deep accompaniment, with contributions from NMA drummer Michael Dean, singer Jade McMahon and string arrangements by film-music producer Ty Unwin. It is an album that works on many different levels and like all Joolz’ work, manages to combine beauty, tragedy, humour and a completely down-to-earth attitude with the truly and genuinely spiritual.]]> 232477 4.11 83 12 5082067 6543658965 0 <![CDATA[Errors of the Spirit]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224089408m/5082067.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5082067.Errors_of_the_Spirit 4.75 4 232477 4.11 83 12