{{Short description|English writer and photographer}}
'''Bella Bathurst''' (born in 1969 in London)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Bathurst, Bella 1969– |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/bathurst-bella-1969 |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her book ''The Lighthouse Stevensons'' won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= |title=The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th Century to the Present Day by Bella Bathurst |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780618416776 |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2020-05-08 |title=Somerset Maugham Awards |url=https://www2.societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/somerset-maugham-awards/ |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=The Society of Authors |language=en-GB |archive-date=2023-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413125200/https://www2.societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/somerset-maugham-awards/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Biography == Bathurst was born in London and presently lives in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bella Bathurst |url=https://granta.com/contributor/bella-bathurst/ |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=Granta|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Bella Bathurst - Literature |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/bella-bathurst |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=British Council}}</ref> She lost "her hearing in her twenties and then unexpectedly regaining it twelve years later," which she explores in her 2017 book ''Sound.''<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Bella Bathurst |url=https://amheath.com/authors/bella-bathurst/ |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=AM Heath Literary Agents |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Stefani |date=2017-12-15 |title=Greystone Books to Publish 'Sound,' a Story of 'Silence and Noise,' by Bella Bathurst |url=https://hearingreview.com/inside-hearing/people/greystone-books-publish-sound-story-silence-noise-bella-bathurst |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=The Hearing Review |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shulman |first=Nicola |title=All ears: 'Stories of Hearing Lost and Found' by Bella Bathurst reviewed by Nicola Shulman |url=https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/books-2 |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=The Oldie |language=en-gb}}</ref>
Aside from writing, Bathurst has worked as a freelance journalist, photographer, and illustrator.<ref name=":3" /> Her writing has appeared in such publications as ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bella Bathurst |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/bellabathurst |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> ''The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Sunday Times,'' and ''The Washington Post.''
== Awards == ''The Lighthouse Stevensons'' won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> and was nominated for the 1999 Guardian First Book Award.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{cite web |date=7 April 2016 |title=Guardian first book award: all the winners |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/07/guardian-first-book-award-all-the-winners |access-date=9 April 2016 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> ''List Magazine'' named it one of the "100 Best Scottish Books of all time."<ref name=":4" /> ''Booklist'' and ''Publishers Weekly'' gave the book starred reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999-09-01 |title=The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Lighthouse-Stevensons-The-Extraordinary-Story-of-the-Building-of-the-Scottish-Lighthouses-by-the-Ancestors-of-Robert-Louis-Stevenson-Bella-Bathurst/pid=1061894 |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=Booklist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780060194277 |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
''Special'' was longlisted for the Orange Prize<ref name=":2" /> and was generally well-received among British press.
''Sound'' received starred reviews from ''Shelf Awareness''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 2, 2018 |title=Sound: A Memoir of Hearing Lost and Found |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=763 |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
== Publications ==
* ''The Lighthouse Stevensons'' (1999) * ''Special'' (2002) * ''The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th-Century to the Present Day'' (2005) * ''The Bicycle Book'' (2011) * ''The Omega Point: The search for the secret of human consciousness'' (2015) * ''Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found'' (2017) * ''Field Work: What Land Does to People What People Do to Land'' (2021)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://bellabathurst.com/ Official website]
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