Literary Birthday – 12 January – Haruki Murakami
Happy Birthday, Haruki Murakami, born on 12 January 1949.
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Where Writers Write – Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas‘s Boat House. Thomas worked in a wooden hut or boat house in the remote Welsh town of Laugharne. Source for Images
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Quotable – Mickey Spillane
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Book Review – 50 Sheds of Grey
(A Parody) by C.T. Grey (Boxtree) ISBN: 978-0-7522-6545-2 When I received this book to review, three things drew my attention. The first one was the blurb.“Hurt me!” she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over the workbench. “Very Well,” I replied, “You’ve got fat ankles and no dress sense.” I just knew that I
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Quotable – Winston Churchill
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Book Review – Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape) ISBN 9780224097383 Is a balance of power, even if it means mutual deceit, essential for peaceful relationships? We follow voracious reader, Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) from her student years in Cambridge into her first job at the Secret Service (MI5), for which her middle-aged lover recruits her. It is the early
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What Is A Denouement?
In this post, we ask: What is a denouement and how do we write one? And more importantly, does your book need a denouement?
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Literary Birthday – 11 January – Alan Paton
Alan Paton was born 11 January 1903, and died 12 April 1988.
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