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Launch time

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The Silver Rings is published later this month and, like every book published these days, will have a range of publicity accompanying it.  There is no launch party – its author isn’t mobile enough – but there will be a … Continue reading

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Final Touches to The Silver Rings

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The Silver Rings is nearing publication, the text and the interior of the book is being finalised, discussions are underway with printers about costs and  possible covers are being considered. Dull, but absolutely necessary, I have been proof-reading what I hope … Continue reading

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Best selling novelist comes to St Paul’s

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Tracy Chevalier, one of today’s finest writers of historical fiction, is coming to a beautiful church in south London on 3rd December, 2018. I have written before about her 2003 novel The Lady and the Unicorn ( see Summer Reading … Continue reading

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Spine-chilling Tales

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This isn’t a Halloween related article – honest.  There will be no mention of pumpkins, witches or (that US import) trick or treating. There will, however, be reference to some of the finest frightening tales ever written and often translated … Continue reading

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Source Material

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Where can a writer get to see 1930s interiors, of back to back city terraces and in middle class villas? What about the post WWII bombed out streets of London, or those same streets, almost car-less, in the 1960s? In … Continue reading