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Continue reading →: Book Review: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad My rating: 3 of 5 stars The shortest review I’ve ever written, for any medium, was on Joseph Conrad’s ‘Lord Jim’. I did not try to hide my feelings and finished the review with this: “I haven’t read ‘Heart of Darkness’ but, despite loving…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ah, at last, a classic book which still deserves its place in the canon of great literature! If you’re a regular reader of my reviewers you’ll know I’m close to despairing over the books which are considered ‘must-reads’ long…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Who Shot Percy Toplis? by Jim Cox
Who Shot Percy Toplis? by Jim Cox My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s not often I get to review a book from an author local to me, let alone a book set in a place I know quite well. Jim Cox’s new book looking at the true story of…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Interested in learning more about this book? Shortform provide a brilliant set of summary notes you will find really helpful. Get your free trial here with 20% off the subscription you use the link. Flying in the face of other reviews for this book, I can honestly say I lost…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J.B. Priestley
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J.B. Priestley My rating: 2 of 5 stars I recall seeing ‘An Inspector Calls’ in my youth. I couldn’t remember anything about it, truth be told, so when this text turned up in my son’s GCSE set texts for English I was delighted…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Neither Here nor There – Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ll start with an admission: I’ve not entirely finished this book. The reason is convoluted and involves a useless budget airline, a dreadful Asian airport in one of the worst capital cities in the…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: A Mother Like Mine by Kate Hewitt
A Mother Like Mine by Kate Hewitt My rating: 3 of 5 stars I think I’m reaching the conclusion that so-called ‘women’s fiction’ is not really for me. This is a shame as I don’t like to think of any kind of fiction being somehow ‘beyond me’. Yet I’ve read…
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Continue reading →: Theatre Review: Rails
First published in Lancashire Life 1st June 2018 Theatre Review: Rails By Ken Powell Complementing their main stage hilarious farce, Jeeves & Wooster, opening the summer season, Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have also started with the much more serious (and world premiere) Rails in the intimate studio theatre.…
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Continue reading →: Pay Up or Shut Up
I’ve been writing professionally now for the best part of ten years. I love the diversity of my work – every day is a little different, every client or editor has different needs and every project is unique. I love the fact that I get to write novels, stories, articles…
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