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Is that a gun in your pocket?

17th April 2009 by Helena 3 Comments  

My Blackberry has a leather case which you can clip onto your belt or trousers. This morning as I walked to the shops with the sun behind me I caught sight of my shadow on the ground in front of me. In the shadow my Blackberry looked like a gun in its holster poised for action.

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Is the Blackberry the modern equivalent of the gun in the wild west? But instead of firing bullets we fire off emails?

Just a thought. Have a good weekend.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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3 thoughts on Is that a gun in your pocket?

  • Rachel says:
    17th April 2009 at 11:15 am

    In 2005 the poet Carol Ann Duffy published a book of poems called Rapture. One of the poems was about text messages being fired like bullets, and how a text can emotionally hurt like a bullet physically would.

  • Mae West says:
    19th April 2009 at 10:23 am

    is that an iphone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

  • Miller says:
    26th April 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Darling a Blackberry is so six months ago. Get an iPhone.

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi-based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor-in-chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. She is working on a thriller set in Sweden as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

In 2022 her short story The Japanese Gardener came second in the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. One of her stories was also shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. When she’s not writing, she works as a headhunter for the media and entertainment industry for the Sucherman Group. 

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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