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Packing Up The Family Home
It may be one of the least discussed rites of passage, but is nonetheless loaded with emotional weight - clearing out the family home. With our dad having recently moved into a care home and our mum long-since passed, my brother Geoff put together a piece on sorting, sifting and cleaning half-a-century's worth of stuff at […]
One Man's Opinion: DEATH OF A DIVA by DEREK FARRELL
In Death Of A Diva, published by Fahrenheit Press, Danny Bird has big plans and they all rest on the launch of his new pub where Lyra Day is set to kick off an evening of high camp with renditions of her long-distant greatest hits. Lyra hasn't read the script and choses the moment to leave […]
One Man's Opinion: FACELESS KILLERS by HENNING MANKELL
An old farmer living in isolation in the Swedish countryside wakes up in the middle of the night to a familiar set of aches and pains. What's unfamiliar is that there's no noise from the horse in the neighbour's stable. The lights are on in the house next door and one of the windows appears […]
One Man's Opinion: THE ANCESTOR by LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG
I was lucky enough to work on the edits for The Ancestor (US). It was a real privilege. Here's the blurb:A man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded […]
One Man's Opinion: HOW TO KILL FRIENDS AND IMPLICATE PEOPLE by JAY STRINGER
"He didn't like Glasgow. He didn't like the people, and they didn't like him. He didn't understand the football, or the accents. He didn't like the drivers. They only had two speeds: road rage and stop. And he didn't like the rain. It rained for 360 days a year. On the other five? Baking sunshine. […]
THE DEADLIEST THIEF by JUNE TROP
The Roman Empire may be the least of her enemies. Miriam bat Isaac, an alchemist and amateur sleuth in first-century CE Alexandria, becomes frantic when her best friend, Phoebe, is kidnapped. At the same time, a brute of a man is stalking Nathaniel ben Ruben, Miriam’s occasional deputy, an itinerant potbellied dwarf. This brute of a […]
One Man's Opinion: THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by RICHARD OSMAN
What a treat this book is. It's a quaint murder mystery set in a retirement village where a group of residents have set themselves up as the Thursday Murder Club of the title. They mull over old cases, but find themselves in the midst of an investigation when the business partner of the complex owner […]
One Man's Opinion: SLOW DOWN by LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG
"God, Noah, stop reading too much into everything. I do Fast all the time, and look at me, I'm fine. The world is made up of strong people and weak ones, and if some of those weak people have to go to make more room for the strong, then so be it."Not long not until […]
One Man's Opinion: EVERYBODY HURTS by IAN AYRIS
'I'm nearly finished the book. Lennie's just killed this puppy. He didn't mean to, just he's so strong, you know. And it's like I don't wanna read no more cos I know it's gonna end bad.'A brief mention before I start, that Southsiders: That's All Right (US), originally published by Blasted Heath, is free today […]
Remembered America
Remembered America is free today.At the beginning of my summer holiday, I drove down to Preston to try and sort out my dad's house ready for sale. It's been the family home for over fifty years and Dad was never one to throw things away. It was an emotional and a very physical experience and […]

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Month: September 2016

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