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Every one a winner. Kind of.
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To be honest I’m not a huge fan of book introductions, so if you’re anything like me then please do feel free to skip the next 500 words and whizz down to the yet-to-be published opening salvo in my new book, A Book of Book Jokes (which might mutate slightly to The Book Lover’s…
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If something’s worth writing, it’s almost certainly worth rewriting. One of the first lessons I learnt as a travel journalist in the 1990s was that if you got a commission to write about a trip from one magazine or newspaper, it was also a smart move to pitch something along…
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“If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.” Peter Maxwell Davies
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So, I have started learning Welsh. And as with so much of what I do, it’s because of a book. I’m about to start working on something for Calon Books…
"In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book…
“Writers stamp themselves upon their possessions more indelibly than other people," said Virginia Woolf.
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“One must have with one, naturally, one or more guidebooks,” says Rose Macaulay in the introduction to her classic 1949 account of touring the Spanish…
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An exclusive look at a food & drink pitch I'm currently working on
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Plus what I read last week, am reading this week, and plan to read next week
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How publishers outside the UK put their own spin on editions of my Bookshelf book
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