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| Chosen for Book Trust's 'Children's Books of the Year' 1992 |
My publications include: Focus on Russian and the Republics
(Evans 1996); Anita Roddick Body and Soul (Rudomino
1992); Letters about NATO (Rudomino 1994);
Europe 1992 – The United States of
Europe ? (Watts/Gloucester 1990); Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova
(Watts/Aladdin Books Ltd 1992); Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (Watts/Aladdin
Books 1992) Christianity for the Twentyfirst Century - the Life and Work
of Alexander Men’ (with Ann Shukman, SCM Press 1996); the Xenophobe’s
Guide to the Russians (Ravette 1995); Strong Enough For Two (Piccadilly
Press 1994); The New Europe (Gloucester 1993) Focus on the
Soviet Union (Hamilton 1993); The NATO Letters (Rudomino 1994);
Diary of a Young Capitalist (Rudomino 1992); Glasnost’, the Gorbachev
Revolution (Hamish Hamilton, 1989). Translations include Armenian Tragedy
by Yuri Rost (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1992); The Soviet Mafia by Arkady
Vaksberg) with John Roberts, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1993). ‘Sitka
Spruce’ for Sage Press (March 2002). Poems published in Lanark Writers' Group's
'Again October'. Elizabeth Roberts began her working life as a journalist with
Thomson Newspapers, first as a reporter on the South Wales Echo, then, after a
brief spell as a general reporter
for independently-owned The American (a
weekly in London), then as Women's Editor of the Watford Evening Echo and then
as a staff reporter/feature writer on the Sunday Times. A 50-minute video
‘Sitka Spruce: Scotland’s No. 1 Timber Tree’ to which she contributed
footage, research and script, was launched in September 2002 by
Rosebank Productions. Her adaptation with director Mark
Rozovsky of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ 'A Russian
Rehearsal', commissioned by Donald Smith of The Netherbow/Story-Telling
Centre in Edinburgh is in repertory in Moscow at the State
Theatre ‘At the Nikitsky Gates’. Another collaboration,
‘Wallace’s Women’ , a play in Scots with Margaret McSeveney opened at Lanark
Town Hall and ran for four weeks at the Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh at
the 1998 Edinburgh Festival fringe. Member Brownsbank Writers Group led by
James Robertson, Matthew Fitt , Gerry Cambridge, Aonghas Macneal and Linda
Cracknell.
