SEX AND DEATH

t c arkle

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In the solitary spaces of human existence, distance is a construct as one life inextricably affects another. Fiona’s recent loss has sent her into a tail-spin of existential proportions. She follows a man to a seaside town to lose herself, leaving her life and friends in London. But there is one person she left behind who understands her better than she does herself. Gavin is about to put everything on the line to follow the cryptic clues she left in her wake. Not realising that taking on her world will transform him in ways he had never imagined.

“Disarmingly honest, boldly feminist and a truly delightful novel (Radio Honey) by Tara Arkle is this year’s must read.” Cass Bates loves her job at the all-female 90s radio station that predates music downloads and Spotify. A musical register resonates throughout the story with each chapter heading featuring a song from Cass’s play list. As Cass battles for the survival of this unique station, she also battles her boss, her former lover and her nerdy father, which inspires the reader with her strength of character: a strength that empowers women to face every obstacle they may encounter in the work place and their private lives. This empowering novel is thought provoking and a lot of fun to read! ~ goodreads

t c arkle.  is a poet, award winning screenwriter and novelist. She studied Poetry at HARVARD with Helen Vendler, considered among the finest of contemporary poetry critics, and literature at BOSTON UNIVERSITY, before dropping out and getting involved as singer/songwriter with Boy George’s label MORE PROTEIN, and Trevor Horn’s ZTT: releasing two singles. 

t c went onto host several music programmes including Manchester’s version of THE WORD for Granada TV, and wrote formats with her own contents company which created pilots for BABY COW, BBC3 AND CHANNEL 4.

As a RADIO DJ she worked for CAPITOL, LBC, TALK RADIO and the first all female radio station, VIVA! 963AM.

Her screenplay GRAFFITI BOY <3 GUERRILLA GIRL won the Moondance International Film Festival 2018, came second at The Rheelheart International Film Festival, selected for the Global Film Festival in Los Angeles, The Eifa, The Monkey Bread Tree film Awards, and CWA.

Her poetry has appeared as part of The Bristol Poetry Festival 2014, at The Bath Literary Festival 2019 as part of the Scatch Spoken Word Group, an Apple and Snakes initiative: England’s Leading spoken word poetry organisation, BBC’s Bristol’s Upload 2020, and Bristol’s Lyra Poetry Festival 2023.

Published work appears in Bristol Stanza’s anthology, Calyx, The Poetry Shed, Paris/Atlatic Magazine, and Preludes.

Radio Honey, her first novel, was shortlisted for The London Literary Award, 2019.

Radio Honey was published by Black Pawn Press in August 2020.