William Keeling
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| William Keeling | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 May 1964 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 💼 Occupation | Novelist |
| 🌐 Website | www |
William Keeling (1964- ) is the author of The Gay Street Chronicles, a series of novels set in Bath from 1831-1841..[1][2]
The Gay Street Chronicles[edit]
The first in the series, Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé, was published in March 2022[3]. The novel was praised by the author Jeanette Winterson as “funny, clever, silly in the right way, and strangely moving in its unexpected ending. I love the alt-Bath universe that William has built".[4]
The writer and broadcaster Matthew Parris described the novel as “incisive, outlandish and hilarious. Part Dickensian, part modern ... there's a brilliance in The Gay Street Chronicles.”[4]
Career[edit]
Keeling was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times from 1990 to 1994 based first in West Africa and subsequently in Indonesia.[5][6] In 1991 he was summarily deported from Nigeria after exposing a multi-billion government corruption scandal[7][5].
In 1995, he joined the global investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as Head of Research in Indonesia.[5]
In 1998, he became co-owner and managing director of Prestat, a historic British chocolate company[8]. The business was sold to the Italian coffee company Illy in 2019 [9]
References[edit]
- ↑ "The Tales of Gay Street , The Bath Magazine".
- ↑ yeahlifestyle (2022-08-23). "Book Review: Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé by William Keeling". Travel, Beauty & Food Review ! Yeah Lifestyle. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ↑ "www.envelopebooks.co.uk".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "www.gaystreetchronicles.co.uk".
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "www.buckingham.ac.uk" (PDF).
- ↑ "Prestat thrives on appetite for luxury chocolates".
- ↑ "NO FT NO COMMENT » 6 Jul 1991 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ↑ "Prestat History".
- ↑ Sanderson, Rachel (15 March 2019). "Illy buys 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' chocolatier, Financial Times, March 15 2019". Financial Times.
External links[edit]
https://www.gaystreetchronicles.co.uk
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