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The First Draft

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Relief, that’s the first reaction. Then a touch of astonishment that it’s finally done. You’ve been working on the first draft, making those marks on the blank page or screen for months and now it finally reaches its end. Yes, … Continue reading

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Local & Exotic Magic

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Both the Festivals with which I am involved this year are, though very different in style and content, closely tied to place.  Many of the authors appearing at the Clapham Book Festival are based in or around Clapham and write, … Continue reading

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Historical Detectives

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Walking those mean LA streets with Sam Spade, dashing through fog-bound Victorian London with Holmes and Watson, or negotiating the drawing rooms and murder scenes of 1930s Mayfair with Hercule Poirot, the reader of detective fiction is transported to times past. … Continue reading

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Local Art

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To Studio Voltaire in Clapham earlier this week to meet with Laura Harford, responsible for the gallery’s outreach and education programmes and to take a look at its current exhibition, the first in the UK by German artist Amelie von … Continue reading

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Guitars

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In just over a weeks time the twenty-first Festival de Jerez will begin. I have my flight tickets at the ready and our flat will be full of friends.  There has already been much discussion about the Programme. Who is appearing? … Continue reading