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Hard-Boiled

Some of you may have noticed a few recent Facebook posts of mine mentioning my latest book addiction: the novels of Raymond Chandler. Chandler’s works were something I’d always just taken for granted. I knew who he was and I’d seen The […]

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Writing Historical Fiction

Dan Beazley is an author and the originator of the groundbreaking “Remastered Words” short story competition that offers new writers of fantasy and horror the opportunity to have their story turned into a proper audio work. This is the competition’s second year […]

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Talking Tolkien

Met an elderly friend of my in-laws last week who, just by chance and not knowing that I was a novelist, related an anecdote about when he was an undergraduate at Oxford in the late-1950s.  He had recently read  JRR Tolkien’s Lord of […]

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