Silja Swaby, half Jamaican, half Finnish, is a marine biologist and author. Funded by Arts Council England, she has won competitions, and been placed in prizes and awards. She is working on a series of futuristic thrillers, featuring a female biologist whose quiet academic life takes a drastic turn. Silja has taken creative writing courses at Cambridge University and more recently Yale University, USA.

Silja tutors writers, gives workshops, and provides a critique service. She is happily unmarried and lives in deepest Somerset, UK.


Silja Swaby is pronounced Sil-yah Sway-bee.

May 18, 2013

How characters dress

Harry Potter in his uniform and characteristic round glasses and Dan Brown's Prof Langdon sporting a tweed, definitely academic style, jacket are two memorably dressed fictional characters.  Who can forget the piercings and tattoos and punk-goth outfits of Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and now Jack Reacher and his throw away clothes. What a character dresses in is what's hot now.

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