Radical Attention: An essay on the battle for our attention in the age of distraction is the new book by Julia Bell and is published by Peninsula Press this week. Julia graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1996 and was the co-editor with Paul Magrs of The Creative Writing Coursebook, published by Macmillan in 2001. She has published three novels for young adults with Macmillan Children’s Books: Massive (2003), Dirty Work (2007) and The Dark Light (2015). She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and is the founder and director of the Writers’ Hub website and the annual anthology The Mechanics’ Institute Review