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Continue reading →: Book Review: A Retrospective review of Brick Lane by Monica Ali
I’ve just reviewed Monica Ali‘s Brick Lane for Paste magazine. Have a look! “Almost 14 months after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the debate surrounding the global garment factory industry shows no sign of abating. The April 24, 2013, collapse killed more than 1,100 people and injured more…
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Continue reading →: Latest articles on E2D
Here’s a couple of pieces I’ve written for Egremont 2Day recently. Hats off to the Boys who go Full Monty From the opening, where we all wondered how they got a complete car on the stage, until the final ‘will-they-won’t-they’ strip, the crowd roared with laughter and cheered the courageous…
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Continue reading →: Album review – So Called Man by Robbie Boyd
This is feel-good on steroids. I’ve just reviewed at cracking good album for The Doughnut which I warmly recommend to you. Tipped to be the album of the Summer, Robbie Boyd is already getting a lot of media attention and his debut album is worth the hype. Plus he seems to be a…
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Continue reading →: Guest blog for Sonali number two – Life in Russia
So our good friends who follow Life in Russia have gracefully allowed me back there to guest post about Sonali. It’s a good job there are kind people out there! In this post I look at little at the life Ria has in Bangladesh and what will be coming when she comes…
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Continue reading →: How Music Affects Your Productivity – from Sparring Mind
As an ex-professional musician and music teacher, sounds are very important to me. I’ve written a review in the past about Ommwriter which I think is a wonderful writing tool thanks to both its simplicity and the range of ambient sounds it provides. You can just write with that program and do so chilling…
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Continue reading →: On learning to be a thick-skinned hypersensitive wreck
A friend has just shared with me a tweet they read from Matt Haig: ‘To be a writer you need a thick skin.’ True. But to write well in the first place you need to be a hypersensitive wreck. (Irony.) How true this feels at the moment. Currently, I’m on…
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Continue reading →: Guest blog for Sonali number one
The first of a series of guest blogs is now published over at 10eveningflowers – the blog site of fellow author and good friend Kruti Mehta from India. I will be guest blogging at various sites over the next few weeks and each post will try to give a little different perspective…
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Continue reading →: Sonali – the softcover version is here!
I was as excited today as a giddy school kid when sweeties are handed out. I can get quite excited about things easily but especially so when my first published book Sonali arrived through the post. I had been fretting about this ever since ordering a copy through the bookshop. Photo…
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Continue reading →: Restless in bed with the Vicar’s Wife
I’ve been away from my family for the last few days, staying with friends down in Gloucester. I feel the need to confess my nights have been spent in bed with the Vicar’s Wife. It was my wife who suggested I should do so actually and was perfectly happy with…
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Continue reading →: Music Review: Monks of Mellonwah – Turn the People
In fact, I’m a little embarrassed how damned good it is. I keep playing it repeatedly like I’m fifteen again and bopping away in my room to most of the thirteen tracks when I think no one is looking. I’ve just started writing for The Doughnut and thought you might like to…
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