Archive for the ‘Genre’ Category
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Today’s posting is gluten-free
18 Dec 2019Just the other day a truck drove past me advertising potato crisps – gluten-free. Very commendable. There was only one…
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A senior cabinet politician writes…
05 Dec 2019A SENIOR CABINET POLITICIAN WRITES With elections that nobody wants coming up fast everywhere, people have been asking me what…
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Does satire work?
06 Nov 2019DOES SATIRE WORK? I’m just finishing a book about satire. Satire is flourishing. We satirists like to think that we…
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Dark night of the soul? Review of Louise Doughty’s Platform Seven
25 Oct 2019REVIEW: PLATFORM SEVEN I like dark stories. I have no problem with light stories, either, but there’s something about a…
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Behind the Headlines: From Britain to Hollywood (and back)
15 Oct 2019Britain to Hollywood All my life I’ve been telling stories. At first, I made up stories to get out of…
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Impress your friends – Your biggest eReader problem solved at last
02 Oct 2019Your biggest e-reader problem solved The Harris Institute for Social and Self-Improvement For Individuals and Teams (HISSIFIT) has been working…
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How to create a character that lives
20 Sep 2019HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER THAT LIVES This week I talked to Bonnie D Graham on her radio programme Read…
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Review: Joe Country by Mick Herron
11 Sep 2019REVIEW: JOE COUNTRY BY MICK HERRON Publishers, agents and readers love a running series. Like a fast food outlet a…
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Finnish humour. Review of Palm Beach Finland by Antti Tuomainen
14 Aug 2019Review of Palm Beach Finland Last year, I sat with the Finnish novelist Antti Tuomainen on a panel for the…
