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Adaptations and are you coming to London Book Fair?
08 Mar 2024Do you hate watching movies and TV dramas based on novels? Or love them? Why do some adaptations work, while…
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The Boys from Biloxi. Has Grisham taken on too big a case?
18 Aug 2023THE BOYS FROM BILOXI Not many writers can claim to have made a genre their own, but John Grisham and…
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Remote control – Stone Heart Deep reviewed
03 Feb 2022REVIEW: STONE HEART DEEP BY PAUL BASSETT DAVIES With foreign holidays still only slowly returning, how about a remote Scottish…
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Oy veh! Jewface casting?
17 Dec 2021JEWFACE CASTING There was a massive fuss this autumn when a major Hollywood movie came out. A white actor played…
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Special early Black Friday book offers
18 Nov 2021SPECIAL EARLY BLACK FRIDAY BOOK OFFERS I’m off to the Brechin & Angus Book Festival next week and to honour…
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Reading and writing satire: Mightier than the sword?
24 Oct 2021READING AND WRITING SATIRE Satire is having a big moment. We have satirical novels winning the Mann Booker Prize, satirical…
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Have your say: new blurb for The Breaking of Liam Glass
30 Jul 2021NEW BLURB I’d love to hear your opinion of the new blurb for my noir thriller The Breaking of Liam…
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Putting on the squeeze. Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
26 Feb 2021REVIEW: SQUEEZE ME BY CARL HIAASEN What’s a poor author to do? You write a comic novel that satirises the…