Welcome to my website! Here you can find out about me and my books and the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. On the news page you can find out where I'll be teaching workshops, I've added a new FAQ on Massive for those of you writing projects and papers about the book and there are some new links and articles for writers and students.
My latest novelDirty Work
is out now in the UK and the USA. The book deals with issues of
human trafficking and I am giving 50p a copy to UNICEF from the UK
first edition. You can read an exclusive extract on this site. Click here to buy the book for £5.99 from Amazon.
'Like Patricia McCormick’s Sold, this novel gives headlines about sexual slavery a human face.' Booklist
‘Bell’s debut, Massive, was a powerful exploration of body dysmorphia and Dirty Work, published on the bicentenary of Parliament’s vote to abolish the salve trade is as timely as it is punchy.’ The Times
‘Follows
in an illustrious literary tradition of taking readers, through story,
into the seedier side of a reality that cannot be ignored even if most
people would rather avoid it’ The Guardian
Just Can't Get Enough . . . Julia Bell . . .? Then check out my blog or you can listen to a podcast I recorded at the Poetry Cafe available on itunes here.