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12 hours like no other
I wasn’t panic queueing, or writing about queuing, or queuing with “the girls”, or any of the other myriad reasons others have assumed people pick to shuffle in line for hours – and hours – to gaze at a wooden box and a scene many believe belongs to centuries long gone for a scant handful…
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“Better than Le Carré” – Mick Herron
Okay, so everyone calls Mick Herron the new John Le Carré. But what if he’s better than Le Carré? That’s my Mum’s verdict and since she’s been reading him way longer than me, I’m happy to go with her opinion. I’m catching her up though. On possibly the most important measure I’m in the lead…
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Interview with Louise Kennedy for the ipaper
I couldn’t have loved interviewing Louise Kennedy, a first-time novelist in her 50s, more. She told about how a friend dragged her to her first writing class when she was 47, plus how she had to “piss or get off the pot” if she was ever going to write a novel. The result was Trespasses,…
Freelance journalist 