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What makes a good thriller? What do I mean by ‘good’? Successful, as in best-selling? That’s a very difficult question, no one really knows why one book makes the best seller lists while a similar book by a similar author … Continue reading
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First there was sidereal time, the cold time of stars and rings and churning space, charted by the ancients, drawn down by Galen and informing Dante; then Newtonian time, for want of a better description, when our blind watchmaker automates … Continue reading
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Drum roll! This is a Story Bazaar announcement. The second and final book in the Al Andalus series, the sequel to Reconquista, will be published later this year, just in time for Christmas. The final section of The Silver Rings, … Continue reading
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Time for another piece on books at The Story Bazaar. Some of this reading is my research (that authorial quagmire) or at least that’s my excuse. The Moor’s Last Stand; How Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End by … Continue reading
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A return to war-time austerity, as opposed to the modern kind, is that just what we need? It was reading an article in the Sunday paper, in which the writer interviewed people in a Conservative Club in the north of … Continue reading →
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