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  • So what’s so special about Scrivener? Review – Road Test

    23 Feb 2018

    Scrivener review road test: What’s so special about Scrivener? Some people love it – a few hate it. Almost everything…

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  • Bookstore rage: How I nearly strangled an indie bookshop manager

    29 Nov 2017

    Yesterday I came close to inflicting serious damage on an indie bookshop manager. I’d very much like to know from…

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  • Review: Two O’Clock Boy – Mark Hill

    24 Apr 2017

    From Line of Duty to Jack Reacher… …crime is the thing nowadays – but the challenge is to find a…

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  • The Genre That Dare Not Speak Its Name – Review: Capital

    18 Mar 2017

    Capital by John Lanchester My rating: 5 of 5 stars Satire is the genre that dare not speak its name…

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  • Review: Killers in mascara

    05 Nov 2014

    Killers in mascara by Huw Collingbourne My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m in the middle of this unusually entertaining…

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  • Seven ways of writing dialogue that stands out from the crowd

    19 Apr 2014

    I received an email this week from a novelist who wanted to learn more about becoming a screenwriter and in…

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  • Canaletto, Gaugin, Cezanne, Dickens and Screenwriting

    26 Jan 2011

    I managed to get to three of the biggest exhibitions in town this January and took time off to read…

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  • A surprising way to become a Great Writer

    21 Jul 2010

    What is it that makes a great writer great? What can we learn from them and hope to emulate? OK, it's that time of year and maybe the heat's got to me, but I'm starting a list - my Top Ten Attributes displayed by the greatest writers - those I admire and honour. I don't mean that they use or don't use adverbs or three act structure. This is much more personal. And like every list it is totally fallible and biased and mainly intended to annoy, irritate and make people foam at the mouth.

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