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Jun.08.2012 - 2:24 pm
I have to say I have a continued soft spot for a book Kazuo Ishiguro wrote some time ago – The Unconsoled, published in 1995.  Unlike his previous books,...
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Aug.27.2009 - 11:28 am
Not quite ‘Round Ireland with a Fridge’ (Tony Hawks), but almost…I recently took my eighty-two year old mother-in-law, Ina, to Scotland for four days. She’s physically fit for her...
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Aug.03.2009 - 2:41 am
As a children’s writer, I am bound to be influenced by the books I read as a child, but when I look back, the strangest, most obscure books have left the biggest impression...
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Jul.25.2009 - 1:10 pm
Many writers walk to invent their stories. Dickens apparently wrote most mornings and walked every afternoon. I think his characters and their senarios walked with him, ready for...
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