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Story Bazaar Book News

For those awaiting the publication of The Silver Rings, the second in the Al Andalus series and the sequel to Reconquista, there is good news. Enforced rest to recuperate from recent surgery has meant lots of time spent on the … Continue reading

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Facebook Ads – No Politics

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The scandal of Facebook and the micro-targetting of political advertising during the EU Referendum campaign, using the personal data of individuals who had no knowledge that their data had been harvested, hasn’t received the ongoing publicity which it deserves, in … Continue reading

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Myths of the Underground

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The New York Subway has its escaped alligators (the descendants, supposedly, of those creatures once fashionable as up-market pets and flushed down the lavatory when they became too tiresome or their rich owners got bored); Warsaw has its armed resistance … Continue reading

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Make Do and Mend

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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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Anatomy of a Thriller

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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