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AFTER EFFECTS

For too long over recent times, we in the UK became obsessed with the psychodrama that sucked the lifeblood out of virtually every other issue.  Brexit, like a serial TV boxed set with an increasingly implausible plot, hypnotized us with its ‘no deal’ hypotheses...
THE ART OF SOLITUDE

THE ART OF SOLITUDE

… not necessarily for one hundred years. News items are measured by their novelty factor, to attract attention.  The pandemic over the last two or three weeks has provided plenty of unusual and novel news items. And we writers, we novelists, are all about novelty.  We...
A Shelfie Of Books

A Shelfie Of Books

MY FAVOURITE SIX BOOKS OF ALL TIME Here we are on a quiet afternoon at the end of August, I just thought about my favourite books of all time – these are books that I loved from the very start of reading them, books that I have read again and sometimes again,...
How Do We Measure Success?

How Do We Measure Success?

The average book sells 3000 copies in its lifetime Lots of great books make tiddly squat for their authors, lots of crap books make them millions.   Is it 4/5 star reviews on Amazon or Goodreads recommendations that you are after?  A review in the South China Morning...