Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
News and Events
August 26: Something to look forward to: The extraordinary 300,000 year human story: our ancestors, their resources, and their icredible journey. Draft copy...
July 2026: Ruth Finnegan OBE receives an Honorary Doctorate recognising her outstanding contribution to international scholarship and enduring support for Ulster University and the Derry~Londonderry (Magee) campus.
April 2026: Review from Thomas Anderson, Editor In Chief, Literary Titan. The Strange Tools of Human Communication
April 2026: The Hidden Voices from Africa, Cécile Leguy, Callender Press
A Hearing Others' Voices Series
Spring 2026 Launch Event March 6th
The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, The Pen and The Lyre.
Routledge Publishers
November 2025
Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has beenwidely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa, Over 500 pages!
September 2025
Latest review: THE JOYS AND TROUBLES OF A MISSIONARY LIFE
August 2025
Storms: The way of the mariner (Hearing Others' Voices) by Tom Schofield
and Ruth Finnegan. A GREAT REVIEW BY Nuel Crown. And... NEW a short video!
R. Kristi’s novella, The Moving Finger Moves On, is an intriguing
crime inspired by Agatha Christie’s short story, The Moving Finger.
Spring 2025
THE JOYS AND TROUBLES OF A MISSIONARY LIFE: JOWETT MURRAY IN THE CHINA OF 1909 to 1945
Author: David Murray. Callender Press
December 2024
PUBLISHED! There was a naughty boy. John Keates classic poem now illustrated by Jose Sepi
November 2024
PUBLISHED! The Black Ink Colouring Book: your novel art work. Callender Press
April 2024 PUBLISHED! p[us a second edition...
How to be a BAD Cook, Callender Press
Three interviews with Ruth by Roger Kitchen
January 2024
Republished December 2023:
The search for peace. Voices of despair and hope through the
centuries. LULU PRESS
December 2023: Amazing news! Orpheus with his lyre was just selected a
s quarter-finalist by United States Motion Picture Alliance.
Communicating : The Multiple Modes of Human Communication
PEARL OF THE WINDS, The latest in the Kate-Pearl Series. February 2023
Re-published! GRASS: a miracle from the earth. February 2023 by Callender Press.
Completely re-designed and re-paginated, new text sections and many new images.
What are birds? Are they really today’s dinosaurs as
against us mammals and how does their evolution
compare with that of humans and their lifestyle.
A MOMENT TO REMEMBER got an award for
THE BEST BENUE SHORT FILM at The Benue International
Film Festival – December 2022
The Diet and Life of an Amazonian Shaman,
by Laurent FONTAINE & Fermín RODRÍGUEZ YUCUNA
In Shamanism, there are always two paths. The first always occurs involuntarily and unexpectedly when one has been chosen by an invisible entity (spirit, ancestor or master of the forest), most often during a traumatic event (illness, accident or Near Death Experience). However, the second path requires that one expresses his will to develop his powers with Master Shamans by means of rituals and initiation trials.
Publication December 2022, Callender Press
BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD: THE HELIX PEARL – Finalist!
THE HIDDEN LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS: a question of knowledge. NOW with new cover!
A book from Ruth's Trilogy: Tales of the City, The Hidden Musicians and
The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers – with their focus on the City of Milton Keynes.
Published by Callender Press. GOLD AWARD!!!!
Oh Kate, your first book. Illustrations by Rachel Backshall – Dec 2021. PRINT or EPUB
The Moon, the Watching Witching Moon. Readers Favorite book prize Finalist
Betrothed: Finalist: Peachtree Village International Film Festival and Finalist: Kurdistan International Independent Film Festival
No biscuits in Heaven: Screenplay and Radio play – Latest updates and awards. Trailer now available
Creative World AWARD: Black ink pearl
The Helix Pearl: The story of the wine-dark garrulous sea – Book Discussion (uTube link).
A NEW initiative – AUDIOBOOKS
Audiobooks are really expanding now and have become much more popular for publishing authors. For me, it’s rather nice to get back, through audio, to what began my academic life, oral/spoken literature. From the drop down menu Audio you can access demo samples from the books so far published or order the whole audiobook.
Interview/ blog with Graham Mack – prize-winning reader of audfiobooks
Graham is a radio presenter for the BBC and other channels and has had his own radio show for years. He has recently used his skills to being a narrator and producer of audiobooks. I’ve done a lot of work with him so I'm adding this interview as it includes a couple of bits of his reading.
