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Jan.28.2011
I remember meeting my agent for coffee. He ‘d been my agent for a number of years but without managing to place any of my novels. I have actually lost count of the number of novels he’d tried – maybe three or four. Maybe more. It’s a blur. It wasn’t his fault. He’d been able to get the scripts on...
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Jan.31.2010
I've reached the penultimate chapter in my twitterisation of my novel A Gentle Axe.
I don't seriously think anyone will have followed the twitterisation all the way through. In all honesty, I never imagined anyone would. As a communication channel, twitter simply doesn't suit the transmission of an...
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Oct.25.2008
This is a great thrill for me. The russian language edition of my first St Petersburg-set novel , A Gentle Axe has come out in Russia, published by U-Factory. The Russian title is Благородный топор, which apparently means more 'The Noble Axe'. This is in keeping with one aspect of the meaning of '...
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Oct.10.2008
There's a new interview with me up on the Faber site
I was also interviewed this week by an Israeli journalist. It seems the Hebrew edition of A Gentle Axe has either just come out or is about to. The interview was for the Maariv newspaper and hasn't appeared yet.
The Israeli journalist asked me...
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