Jacqueline Crooks, author, Fire Rush – “Lived experiences can enrich fiction”
Fire Rush springs from the well of the personal. Please talk about its genesis and how it has travelled with you for nearly a decade. Author Jacqueline Crooks (Courtesy the subject) I was living in a remote mountain village when I started to think about the dub-reggae music that I had danced to 30 years ago, part of the Black sound revolution. The silence of that village created space for memories of that supra-watt loud subterranean world of dub-reggae dancehalls. People, riots, racist murders, Thatcherism. I…