Photo: Nicola Levinsky
A selection of Rosamond Richardson's books:
- HEDGEROW COOKERY (Penguin)
- DISCOVERING HEDGEROWS (BBC)
- AL FRESCO (Ebury) Winner of the James Beard Award, New York, 1993
- ORGANIC HOME (Dorling Kindersley)
- NATURAL SUPERWOMAN (Kyle Cathie)
- THE GREAT VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK (Kyle Cathie)
Books with Linda McCartney:
- LINDA'S KITCHEN
- LINDA McCARTNEY ON TOUR
- THE LONG SHADOW: INSIDE
- STALIN'S FAMILY (Little, Brown)
- SWANBROOKE DOWN (Scribner's)
- COUNTRY WISDOM (Kyle Cathie)
- COUNTRY HARVEST (Ebury)
- FABULOUS FOOD FOR KIDS (Piatkus)
- VEGETARIAN COOKING FOR KIDS (Piatkus)
- FOOD FROM GREEN PLACES (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
- MEALS WITHOUT MEAT, VEGETARIAN COMPANION, THE HERB RECIPE BOOK, THE SPICE RECIPE BOOK, SWEET THOUGHTS, (Sainsburys/Woodhead Faulkner)
- PURE PASTA (Ebury Press)
- SEASONAL PLEASURES (Penguin)
- SIMPLE VEGETARIAN MEALS (Penguin)
- LOSSES:TALKING ABOUT BEREAVEMENT (Random House)
- YOGA FOR BEGINNER BEARS (Ebury)
- LITTLE GARLIC BOOK, LITTLE MUSHROOM BOOK (Piatkus)
INGRID SOREN is a nom-de-plume. The Zen of Horseriding (Time Warner, 2001) was published in the USA as Zen and Horses with an outstanding endorsement by best-selling author Tami Hoag. Reviewed in the London Evening Standard as 'a very powerful, moving read', the book has been translated into Dutch and German. Ingrid's interest in Zen is ongoing, especially in its affinities with western mysticism, and with her yoga practice.
For several years Ingrid has been exploring Dante, and her latest book Meeting Dante (recently reviewed by Malcolm Guite and Paul Stubbs) is the result of a passion to bring him to a wider general readership. It has been described as a dazzling tour de force on love, human and divine, and on one of the oldest stories in the world: betrayal. This original book is scholarly without being academic, is beautifully described and a compulsive read. She has been supported and encouraged in her Dante work by Cambridge University's Professor of Italian Literature, Robin Kirkpatrick, who recently translated The Divine Comedy for Penguin Classics. Ingrid lectured on Dante and Eliot to the Cambridge International Summer School in 2005, and her paper delivered to an International Symposium on Dante and Eliot in Florence 2008 is to be published by Cambridge University Press. Ingrid was the keynote speaker at the T.S.Eliot Society Festival at Little Gidding in 2008, alongside Sean o'Brien and Peter Stanford. In 2009 she was engaged as Principal Consultant in Contemporary Readings of Dante to the 'Dante Experience' run by the Italian Department at Cambridge, for which she devised a dance entitled Spirit of Breath for the Cambridge Contemporary Dance Group. She is also a John Clare enthusiast, and following her readings from the Commedia at the 'Dante Experience', she was invited to read for the World Premiere of a new choral work by Janet Wheeler based on five of Clare's poems for the John Clare Society.
Ingrid's work-in-progress, Dante's Dream, is a book that will bring Dante to 'everyman' - reaching a wider - and especially younger - anglophone readership than ever before. It will be the perfect introduction to Dante for 'anyone with imagination from the age of ten upwards' as was written of Antoine de St. Exupery's 'The Little Prince'. Ingrid's special interests are film, music and dance, and she has recently been invited to write articles and reviews for 'The London Magazine', and 'Canvas'.
Under her real name Rosamond Richardson she presented a number of programmes for BBC2 television, and published over thirty non-fiction books, a versatile range including an interview-based book on Stalin's Family, The Long Shadow (Little, Brown, 1993), which gave her a defining presence beside Simon Sebag-Montefiore in the BBC2 documentary Stalin: Inside the Terror, subsequently shown on the History and Discovery channels. Her books have sold in USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, and foreign editions include Germany, Holland, Spain, France, Italy, Israel, Taiwan, Poland and Finland.
CONTACTS
email Ingrid at ingrid.soren@gmail.com
Literary agent: Bill Hamilton at A.M.Heath bill.hamilton@amheath.com