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Category Archives: Recommendation
Me Before You (review)
It has taken me a few days to get to this point because I was reeling and crying and just so overwhelmed by the characters in this book. Lou was cute and managed, with Will’s help, to grow out of … Continue reading
Posted in Recommendation, Women's Fiction
Tagged book to film, Dignitas, disability, me before you, review
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My 50th
I’m spoilt. I know I am, but does it stop me from being a little Diva and demanding more? [Sigh] No, of course it doesn’t. I’m not stupid! For the last couple of decades, whenever the question of ‘big birthday’ … Continue reading
Posted in New Author, Recommendation
Tagged Aida, B&B, birthday, Italy, Juliet's Balcony, opera, surprise, Verona
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My Writing Corner
A fan (you know who you are) asked me why, in all my publicity photos, there is only a picture of my writing chair and why the bookshelf next to it is full of cookery books. First – seriously? You zoomed … Continue reading
Posted in Recommendation, Writing
Tagged Annabel Pitcher, Carrie Ryan, Charlie Higson, Cormac McCarthy, David Whitley, Delirium, F E Higgins, Faulks on Fiction, Lauren Oliver, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, my writing chair, Nigel Farndale, reading, Seb Faulks, Shadows of the Art (trilogy). Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Black Book of Secrets, The Blasphemer, The Dark and Hollow Places, The Dead, The Enemy, The Midnight Charter, The Road, writing
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Wish I’d thought of that!
Unlike the chap who liked the product so much he bought the company (Remington?), I just sit around bemoaning the fact that I didn’t come up with the idea in the first place to anyone who will listen and admit … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing, Recommendation, Writing
Tagged Bea Turvey, book to destroy, Books, children, creating, destruction, doodling, envy, gift idea, ideas, journals, Scribbling, Wreck This Journal, writing
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Recommendation: Nation
I am not a Terry Pratchett fan. I enjoyed Going Postal on tele but I just have never been able to get into his writing. Just before Christmas I was encouraged by several students to try Nation: ‘It’s completely different, Miss’; ‘It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Recommendation, Writing
Tagged class, Nation (novel), race, recommendation, Terry Pratchett, tidal wave
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re-Trash-ed
Trash by Andy Mulligan was the subject of my previous blog. You will be pleased to hear that I have now read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was everything it promised to be. Written for the children’s market … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Recommendation, Writing
Tagged Andy Mulligan, Awards, Blue Peter, Blue Peter Award, books for children, children's books. children's novels, childrens book, childrens novel, critique, Dumpsite, poverty, rejections, shortlisting, South America, swear word, Trash, violence
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Trash
I refer to the novel, not the content of this blog. Earlier this week it came to my attention that the Blue Peter Awards removed the novel Trash from their shortlist because it has two swear words and one violent … Continue reading
Posted in New Author, Publishing, Recommendation, Women's Fiction, Writing
Tagged Andy Mulligan, Blue Peter Award, book awards, censorship, children's books, gratuitous, swear word, teen selection, Trash, violence
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Banished by Bea Turvey
