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Marks out of five

One book that I am really looking forward to is Haruki Murakami’s IQ84. It has been out in Japan for a while but I am still waiting for the English translation to arrive. A little while ago it turned up on Amazon and I was very close to buying it but I couldn’t see anywhereContinue reading “Marks out of five”

The question I would have asked Emma Donoghue

I just got back from a weekend away in Norwich scouting whether or not Norwich will be a nice place to relocate to in two years time when relocation is something we are going to do. At no point did we hear anyone talk loudly about shooting or stabbing anyone, which did happen the eveningContinue reading “The question I would have asked Emma Donoghue”

That difficult second draft pt 2

A few months ago I was working in a job that afforded me a bit more down time than I was used to and so, knowing that the first draft of my book was almost complete, I spent a lot of that time reading as much advice as I could on how to take aContinue reading “That difficult second draft pt 2”

That difficult second draft

Toward the end of last year I finished the first draft of the novel I had been working on for quite a long time. I had started writing it in early 2008, took a forced break from it due to illness at the beginning of 2009 and finally reached the end in December 2010. ItContinue reading “That difficult second draft”

Minor e-book criticisms

When I first bought my e-book reader about eight months ago I was initially sceptical about it. Most of that scepticism was put to rest on the first day when a combination of the bizarre beauty of electronic ink and the ease of buying a book and immediately reading it on the train were soContinue reading “Minor e-book criticisms”