Photographs I’ve taken which I have used in books I’ve written, by Elizabeth Kay
Since the advent of digital photography I’ve been an addict – and I’ve used a lot of the photographs I’ve taken in different books. Here are a few, with extracts from the book concerned. The Divide I decided to open this book in the most magical place I had ever visited, which was the humming bird garden in Monteverde, Costa Rica. …the humming birds returned to the sugar-water feeders that were hung around the outside of the Study Centre. They used their beaks as rapiers, fencing in mid-air as they tried to knock one another away from the rim. The ones that won looked smug, and the ones that lost zoomed around the garden pretending they didn’t want a drink after all. Back to the Divide Although this description comes from The Divide, lot of the action in the second book is set in the library of my alternative world. I based it on a café in Bristol. This one was made of wood, with asymmetrical window-frames and doorways. Pear-shaped windows, kidney-shaped wind...