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Thursday, 1 February 2018
I Used to Be: Believably real voices from the two very different women protagonists
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I Used to Be by Mary Brown My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved this book, but beware it will pull at the heartstrings. The depiction of gri...
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Everybody Shrugged: A timely tale of government overreach with Pythonesque overtones
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Everybody Shrugged by Walt Pilcher My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s advertised as a tale of government overreach on steroids. And it is! P...
Thursday, 18 January 2018
A portent of parental problems
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Today I’ve been incapable of writing the word ‘parents’ (even had to go back and correct that one). Every time, my fingers spell out p-a-r-...
Thursday, 11 January 2018
The art and craft of thinking
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Part of my day job is to introduce large numbers of students to the world of higher education via a short series of workshops that runs acr...
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Thursday, 14 December 2017
Book review: Ours: poetry collection including Maureen Duffy
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Ours by Maureen Duffy My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love Maureen Duffy's poetry - it's down to earth, solid, and is about real peopl...
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Writing successful commercial fiction
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This book, How to be a Fantastic Writer , is the expanded 2nd edition of The Writers' Toolkit. It is the recommended text (by the edi...
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Looking forward ... looking back ...
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This has been a series of seven blogs exploring a variety of corners of fiction writing. I’ve looked at some of the genres that don’t alway...
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