The Joy of Writing
What can you do when the love of your life disappears? Let’s find out…
This series of the podcast (series 2) is for listeners who want character-driven fiction that is true to life, who have walked the land of emotions, and would like to be reminded of them again.
I’m your host Mark Carew, author of two other novels, The Book of Alexander and Magnus, both published by Salt, an award-winning independent literary publisher in the UK. In each series 2 episode, I read a chapter of my novel, Beyond The North Wind, as we follow a Norwegian woman, Anna, on a journey to find out what happened to her missing husband Emil.
If you like adventure, romance, and mystery then this author-narrated podcast novel is for you.
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Episodes
52 episodes
S2E19 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 19
Anna and her guides Lars and Anna cross the ice and snow.
S2E18 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 18
Anna and her guides start the trek to Uektefjord.
S2E17 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 17
Anna reaches the glacier and hears the cry of the teenagers in trouble.
S2E16 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 16
The ice cave reveals itself to Emil.
S2E15 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 15
Anna continues her trek and reaches the glacier where she will meet her guide. She watches four teenagers play near around a dangerous moulin, a vertical shaft taking meltwater from the surface of the glacier to the bottom.
S2E14 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 14
Anna and Emil enjoy time together. Emil leaves to set up the anniversary dinner in the ice cavern.
S2E13 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 13
Anna talks to Tomas, a journalist she meets in the hiker's hut. Tomas tells her about the people who meet at a villa at Uektefjord.
S2E12 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 12
Emil is planning the anniversary dinner surprise in the ice cathedral.
S2E11 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 11
Anna leaves on her trek which takes her across country, reminisces about Emil in a place special to them, and reaches a hiking hut.
S2E10 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 10
The first chapter from Emil's point of view prior to his disappearance.
S2E9 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 9
Anna leaves on her search to find Emil or what happened to him. She milks her goats at the summer farm and asks Siegfried to take care of them.
S2E8 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 8
Anna buries her dead dog Gunnar. She travels to one last address in Oslo to look for Emil but returns empty handed. Birgit, her sister, tells her about how the melting glacier is releasing objects and bodies from the ice. Anna...
S2E7 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 7
Alexander leaves Sigrid and Siv and takes up the offer to record life in Berkeley's villa.
S2E6 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 6
Anna goes for a walk with her dog, Gunnar.
S2E5 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 5
Alexander presents himself to Sigrid as Svein, her dead son.
S2E4 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 4
Anna is visited at her summer farm by her friend Fridtjof. He tells her that it has been three years since Emil went missing and that it is time for her to let go and move on.
S2E3 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 3
Alexander embarks on an audacious plan to win Sigrid's trust.
S2E2 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 2
Anna, Emil's wife, finally opens Emil's will, three years after his disappearance.
S2E1 Beyond The North Wind Chapter 1
Beyond The North Wind was the first novel I wrote and was published on Amazon. I thought it would be fun to narrate and serialise the novel, chapter by chapter.Here is the first chapter. Alexander, a young Englishman...
Episode 33: Sally O'Reilly, creative writing lecturer, on how to write a book
Excellent advice, from a senior lecturer in creative writing at the Open University, on all stages of writing a novel. How to start, keep going, and produce a draft ready for submission to an agent.
Episode 32: Sally O'Reilly on the natural history of a writing career
What can a writer expect from a "writing career"? Ups and downs, highs and lows, of course! With experience comes wisdom. Learning about writing, books, readers, and the publishing industry never stops.
Episode 31: Dark Aemilia by Sally O'Reilly
My guest is Sally O'Reilly, author of Dark Aemilia, published by Myriad in 2014. Aemilia Lanyer meets William Shakespeare in the time of the plague, witchcraft, and a dying Queen Elizabeth, in this vividly imagined novel, rich in histori...
Episode 30: Fiona Melrose on how to write a book
We discuss several topics in this episode. How the act and art of writing books is central to Fiona's life. How her intuitive approach to writing translates into advice for her creative writing students. And how receiving fanc...
Episode 29: Fiona Melrose on Midwinter
My guest is Fiona Melrose, author of Midwinter, published by Corsair in 2016. We discuss the book, its themes of coming to terms with grief and a fractured family, and how living in Suffolk informed the story.Publisher:
Episode 28: All about NaNoWriMo and why you should give it a go, with Elizabeth Haynes
Elizabeth Haynes is a best selling crime author - seven of her published novels started life in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a community-supported writing event where writers try and write a novel of 50,000 words in the month of No...