Grandma goes to the White House to pick up where she left off Nov 18, 2008
Fay WeldonNovember 18, 2008. Just when I thought I was home free," Grandmother Obama must have thought. "Son-in-law safely in the White House, all that hoo-hah settled down and the travel ling stopped, and there'll be some me-time at last. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Tough new Bond girl divides fans Nov 14, 2008
When Bond producer Barbara Broccoli recently described as "progressive" some of the early female leads, who had careers and were sexual predators in their own right, Fay Weldon, a writer associated with feminism, was quoted as saying. "These films were attempts by men to keep women in their place and to ensure they still ironed their shirts.". (India Times)
Brown launches literature event Oct 11, 2008
Booker Prize-shortlisted author Linda Grant will explore the complex portrayal of families in literature, along with fellow writers Sadie Jones, Isabel Fonseca and Fay Weldon. Actors Julie Walters, Sheila Hancock and John Barrowman also discuss their lives. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Davies to grace literary festival Aug 5, 2008
Fay Weldon will also be among a group of authors exploring the portrayal of families in literature. Television presenter Richard Madeley will lead a discussion about fatherhood, while actress Sheila Hancock will talk about life without actor husband John Thaw in a family-themed festival. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Goddess and Rita Angus Jul 14, 2008
But Fay (later the writer Fay Weldon) would observe: we were more real and lasting on the canvas than we were in real life. In her many self-portraits Angus displays her capacity for self-invention. (Suite101.com)
The Nightingale group Jun 7, 2008
Indeed, when at a previous meeting one member complained about the amount of sex in a novel by Fay Weldon, she was quickly shot down by a 97-year-old: "I thought we were all grown-up here.". The grown-up-ness of the Nightingale book club is one of its most striking aspects. (Guardian Unlimited -- Society)
Just one question May 27, 2008
Fay Weldon, author asks Salman Rushdie, author. Q Don't you think our time would be better spent focusing on our writing. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Flooded marquee at Hay festival May 26, 2008
Events on Sunday include Salman Rushdie, former US president Jimmy Carter and Fay Weldon. President Carter on his arrival in the town said: "I hope it's raining as much as this on my farm in Plains, Georgia.". (BBC News -- UK)
Hay festival: Kureishi slams creative writing courses May 26, 2008
Fay Weldon was more upbeat, when asked about creative writing course she teaches in a later session. There are lots of readers out there and they need lots of books to be written, she said. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Full Hay programme May 20, 2008
This year sees appearances by Salman Rushdie, discussing the artists behind the Hamza-narna paintings, and Julian Barnes reflecting on the unlikely subject of his own death with the Guardian's Claire Armitstead, Other prominent figures include Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Will Self, Hanif Kureshi, Louis de Bernieres and Fay Weldon. Poetry also makes a strong appearance, with readings and talks by Lemn Sissay, Roger McGough and Brian Patten, as well as poetry professor Tony Curtis, who will be giving... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Accountants in the movies. By Rob Lewis Mar 5, 2008
Based on a novel by less trashy fiction author Fay Weldon, who had scripted a BBC version three years earlier. The Crimson Permanent Insurance', Monty Pythons Meaning of Life (1983)A bunch of elderly clerks and accountants turn their office block into a pirate ship and sail off to fight the Very Big Corporation of Americas skyscraper by firing filing cabinets at it. (Accounting Web, UK)
Having it all Mar 4, 2008
Long out of print, the book gave an extraordinarily intimate insight into the home lives of 20 women, some of them household names such as Fay Weldon, Sheila Kitzinger, Margaret Forster, Barbara Mills QC and Mavis Nicholson ... Some were famous: writer Fay Weldon (four sons); birth campaigner Sheila Kitzinger (five daughters); the philosopher Mary Warnock (five children) ... In the 1987 introduction to the book, Grove quotes Fay Weldon, "If you are talking on a platform and you are a woman,... (Guardian Unlimited -- Jobs)
Product Placement Deals Make Leap From Film to Books Feb 19, 2008
Five years ago, Bulgari, the Italian jewelry company, paid Fay Weldon an undisclosed amount to feature the brand prominently in her novel, entitled - what else. - "The Bulgari Connection.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Books are for reading, not brooding over' Feb 16, 2008
Fay Weldon, 76, author ... Fay Weldon, 76, grew up in New Zealand and London. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Weldon: Society's on the skids: I blame the Spice Girls Dec 10, 2007
FAY WELDON'S latest novel is The Spa Decameron. Share this article. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Spice odyssey Nov 19, 2007
Fay Weldon s new novel, The Spa Decameron, is published by Quercus (14. 99). (Times Online)
An audience with Philip Roth Oct 7, 2007
"I write what I write the way I write it... I will publish what I publish however I want to publish."' - Fay Weldon on Deception. No one is better at showing how people's temperaments go out to meet their disasters' - Adam Mars-Jones on The Plot Against America. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Margaret Drabble Discusses Fate, Fish and `Gloomy' Thomas Hardy: Interview Aug 14, 2007
Writers like Doris Lessing, Germaine Greer, Fay Weldon have helped create the world that appreciated them. Pregnancy Is Fate. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Outcry as British Council quits Europe for Muslim world Aug 5, 2007
Speaking from her home in Dorset, Fay Weldon, a vociferous supporter of the earlier campaign to prevent the closure of the council's libraries, and an author who has long toured with the council, argues that women fiction writers will be especially hard hit because they will not be read in those closed patriarchal societies with tiny educated elites. I hope the Islamic world is grateful,' she adds. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Why have regulators banned re-runs of a 1950s TV advert? Jun 20, 2007
Author Fay Weldon, who headed the team which came up with the slogan, has described the decision as absurd. "When you think of what can be run and what is being run, like low-cost airlines and cars - cars kill, eggs aren't actually likely to do so," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. (BBC News -- Health)
Watchdog goes to work on egg advert Jun 20, 2007
Leading figures yesterday, led by author Fay Weldon, lined up to attack the decision, with nutritionists pointing out that those bought up in the 1950s, when food rationing was still in force, ate far healthier diets than today s children. The egg industry wanted to re-run the ads filmed in 1957 starring Tony Hancock to mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic campaign and the British Lion mark. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Do not go to work on an egg Jun 20, 2007
"The advertisements - which can be viewed on a - also featured Patricia Hayes and Pat Coombs. They capitalised on the grumpy, world-weary persona created by Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour, which moved from radio to television a year before the egg campaign was launched.The "go to work on an egg" slogan was popularly attributed to writer Fay Weldon, who was working in advertising at the time, although she said later she was only the manager of the team that devised the campaign.Weldon recalled... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Novel joins non-fiction on Mind book shortlist Apr 25, 2007
The judges for the award include the novelists Fay Weldon, Blake Morrison and Michele Roberts and the winner will be presented with the 1,500 prize on May 16 by Stephen Fry. Guardian Unlimited. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
It's all feminism's fault (again) Mar 28, 2007
According to the writer Fay Weldon, feminism has also undermined sex - she suggested recently that real women should revert to faking orgasms and praising "their man lavishly afterwards". This does not sound like sex to me. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Doomed Love': The other woman in poet Hughes' life Mar 8, 2007
They present interviews with contemporaries, such as Fay Weldon and William Trevor, and draw upon previously unseen Wevill letters and diaries. The tone is matter-of-fact. (USA Today -- Life)
