Scriptwriter News: Producer Angus Lamont, who acquired Warrior Daughter for Crab Apple Films Ltd, has attached Rhianna Pratchett to write the screenplay

WARRIOR DAUGHTER cuts close to the bone of Celtic History - Sunday Times

“a marvellous marriage of imagination and scholarship” - Lancashire Evening Post

Amazon - 2,000 years ago on the Isle of Skye, a warrior is born - illuminated by the great Celtic fire festivals and inspired by the historical Scathach, Scotland’s legendary warrior queen, Warrior Daughter tells the story of an Iron Age girl challenged to defend her people and their beliefs.

Книжка, освітлена вогнями кельтського дійства... Anna Tregub’s review inVsesvit

During September, Janet read at Lviv’s 5th International Literary Festival with Ukrainian poet, Lyudmila Taran, and visited Lviv National University to meet Roksolana Zorivchak, Head of Translation, and deliver a talk for students.

After travelling south to Kiev, she gave talks for students in English Language Philology, and English Language and Literature, at Shevchenko National University and Boris Grinchenko University before speaking as a guest of the International Theatrical Festival ‘Maria’ at the Anton Chekhov conference. Read about the visit in Ukraine’s Day

'The Lasses, O' by Janet Paisley reviewed in the Edinburgh Guide

a delightfully subtle act of subversion... Sunday Herald

Midwife, relative, mother-in-law, smuggler, neighbour - five women who knew Burns tell their stories in monologue and song, creating a humorous and moving play of the poet’s life. ...so authentic you feel you have travelled back in time Three Weeks

The Times: skilfully written... original, amusing

Scotsman: a powerful formula for a new perspective on Burns.

Produced by Component Parts. Directed by David Paisley. Starring Suzanne Magowan, Margaret Fraser, Carrie-Ann English, Pamela Byrne, Natalie McConnon

Janet is a member of the Scottish goverment’s Scots Language Working Group, established by the Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Contitution, to advise on provision for the language. Scots is spoken by the majority of Scottish people, despite lacking formal education in it. Its status is recognised by the Council of Europe and the UK government.

Kate Sinclair and Kevin Loader team up to produce WHITE ROSE REBEL. The $10 million project, with Peter Berry writing the script, won development funding from the UK Film Council.
‘A stunning debut novel’ “White Rose Rebel is incredibly readable, pacy, lusty, rousing and richly imagined.” Based on the legendary Colonel Anne, this impeccably researched novel tells the story of a couple torn apart and set against each other on opposite sides during the Jacobite Rising of 1745. “Realistic, deeply moving and gloriously passionate.”

This is history at its most magnificent - New Books Magazine

Praise from the US - the best book I have ever read - Minda Magero

Buy from Penguin or as an audio book read by Carol Bonnyman from Oakhill Publishing.

10 SCOTTISH BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD - 1st-31st October 2009, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness

White Rose Rebel by Janet Paisley joins Waverley by Sir Walter Scott for Homecoming as Scotland Ink celebrates
10 books whose impact was global and pairs each with a contemporary book making similar impact today.
Scotland Ink list and Exhibition in Association with Publishing Scotland and SAPPHIRE

Poets Blog 2009 - for Learning Teaching Scotland, on the writing of the following poem

New Poem written for the Addressing the Bard anthology is Scots Poem of the Month

Drosd’s Ukrainian translation of Alien Crop by Yulia Dzhugastryanska and Dmytro Drozdovskyi was launched at Edinburgh’s Henderson Gallery, Tues 20 Oct 2009, by literary editor, Dmytro, and Dr Oksana Prykhodko.

• LA ROSA DE ESCOCIA Espasa Calpe 2008 - La Rosa de Escosia by Janet Paisley

Un pueblo desgarrado, una época convulsa y un amor que lo superará todo.

La rosa de Escocia fue la bella y aguerrida Anne Farquharson, quien tomó las riendas de su clan contra su marido, al cual se enfrentó para adoptar la causa de la rosa blanca jacobita, la de los partidarios del príncipe Carlos, el Pretendiente, a quien consideraban su legítimo señor. Ambos vivirán una intensa pasión mientras la lucha política los obliga a enfrentarse una y otra vez, hasta llegar a un final realmente inesperado.

• DIE REBELLIN DER ROSE Rowohlt 2007 - Die Rebellin der Rose by Janet Paisley

Die junge Ehe zwischen der eigensinnigen Anne und dem stattlichen Clanführer Aeneas gerät zwischen die Fronten des schottischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges. Anne stürzt sich an der Seite ihres früheren Liebhabers in den blutigen Kampf für ein freies Schottland – bis sie eines Tages auf dem Schlachtfeld ihrem Mann gegenübersteht …

• WICKED! in Ukrainian - a psychotherapy of our society

Yulia Dzhugastryanska‘s translation of Janet’s hilariously naughty comic novella.

Wicked! is a novel about risk and curiosity, paradox and humour, desire and love. It is a story that you should read, but first of all you need a microscope to see what exists in the ocean of human emotions and motivations of those who cannot be sincere with each other and are afraid of face-to-face communication - George Ryaboy, journalist & critic - The book is a psychotherapy of our society. CPRACC - This book is wicked!

• VSESVIT - no. 3-4, Ukraine 2007

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Поклали ноги в ґрунт, углиб землі
людей немає.
Кістки жінок прадавніх... чути хрускіт,
сухі й крихкі, під нашими ногами...

Ukraine’s literary journal Vsesvit, issue 3-4, features Janet Paisley’s acclaimed collection Alien Crop with twenty poems translated into Ukranian by literary editor and critic Dmytro Drozdovskyi.

Janet Paisley’s stories, poems and plays for children are published alongside other writers in various anthologies suitable for a range of age groups.

• Scottish Plays for Schools published by Hodder Gibson in association with ASLS includes English and Scots versions of Silver Bullet - a comic play about growing up for reading or perfomance with secondary S1 to S6.

• The Thing that Mattered Most - Scottish poems for children by Scottish poets.

• Gaberlunzie Joes's PURE GHOSTERS - short stories for weans S1 to S5.

• My Mum's a Punk - stories and poems by Scottish writers for 10-14yr olds.

• The Tartan Rainbow - stories in English for children age 9-12yrs

• A Hantle o Verse - poems in Scots for children.

• Anither Hantle o Verse - more poems in Scots.

• Shouting it Out - stories for teenagers from contemporary Scotland.

• Goldfish Suppers - poems for children and families.

• Other anthologies include The Kist schools resource, Twinkle, Twinkle Chocolate Bar rhymes for the very young, Count to Five and Say I'm Alive video and books pack, and Bright Ideas poetry activities from Scholastic.