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I do enjoy historical fiction and my favourite authors are Jean Plaidy and Philippa Gregory. Gregory’s A Respectable Trade is one of the finest novels of the slave trade that I have ever read, highlighting a little known aspect of it. So perhaps it was the surfeit of Plaidy and Gregory I had been reading [...]
With a title like that, Rosemary Edghill’s influences are fairly clear. Edghill started out as a comic writer (so she can safely claim she killed vampires for a living!) and went through several jobs before becoming a full time writer.
She’s a genre gipsy (has written in every genre except westerns) and has been associated with [...]
Start at A in this book and right away you discover that writers have no harsher critics than other writers. Take Truman Capote’s brief but bitter assessment of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road.“It’s not writing, it’s just typing.”
Imagine what he would have said if he’d heard the rumor that Kerouac wrote his first draft on [...]
Since the success of Harry Potter, film makers have cast their beady eyes over children’s literature, so it is no surprise to learn the Inkheart will be released as a movie in 2006. And for once, I am betting that the movie version will be an improvement.
Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart, translated from the original German by [...]
Listeners to BBC UK’s radio program Women’s Hour recently chose this book as one of the top 30 titles in a list of women’s watershed fiction. I decided the time was ripe to revisit this book and find out why.
Even at first glance, it’s not hard to understand – The L-Shaped Room broke a lot [...]
Life as a writer is full of discovery, but life as a reader even more so. I love discovering a writer new to me, but very rarely do I discover a perfect writer, a flawless book. In Anchee Min’s Empress Orchid I have found both.
Writers who read can be a pain in the butt, mentally [...]
I tried, I really tried, to finish Sharon Osbourne’s autobiography Extreme. After all I had enjoyed Life with the Osbournes on TV and felt some sympathy for Ozzie’s problems with the remote - I can’t work the blasted things either.
But this book really lives up to its title - by the time I got to [...]
8.30am, July 16 2005, a small town in Queensland, Australia and a bunch of happy strangers are waiting for Harry…
I preordered Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince over a month ago, $10 down and the promise of a `magic price’ on HP Day. Since I had bought Harry Potter and the Order of the [...]
There’s nothing like the life of a freelancer - one day you are snowed under with work, the next you have enough time on your hands to blog again.
Of course, things usually die down around Christmas, but this year the period leading up to Christmas has been particularly busy - not that there’s anything wrong [...]
I’ve been meaning put this review into the blog for a while, and after a bit of a blogging drought, what better way to warm up?
Dan Brown’s book is a good read, but it is about an idea rather than people, so don’t expect much in the way of characterization.
No doubt the leading characters will [...]
