Over the past few weeks I have been preparing for meeting a literary agent but realistically, what can I possibly…
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There’s an Italian saying: See Naples and die. After driving in Naples, that idiom has a whole new meaning. The…
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I’ve been planning to remodel the garden ever since we moved in two and a half years ago. The garden…
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To me, Butter by Asako Yuzuki is a compelling amalgam of crime fiction and cookbook. It was a single sleeve…
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Jack and I have just spent a glorious long weekend in beautiful Bute, Jack’s homeland off the west coast of…
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Curating Walking Routes T he dictionary definition of the verb ‘to curate’ is: ‘to pull together, sift through, and select…
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Rain kept our lives on hold all through January and most of February and for a while, I began to…
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Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov is about life in a war zone, specifically the zone of Donbas which in 2014,…
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It strikes me that there is a world of difference between writing endings in a stand-alone novel and writing endings…
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When I took Orbital by Samantha Harvey with me to read on a train journey, Jack said, “You’ll have finished…
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