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Great opportunity for unpublished UK writers

Great opportunity for unpublished UK writers

14 May 2012 · Literary events · Comments { 4 }

If you are an unpublished UK writer with a novel manuscript ready for submission, I’d strongly recommend that you check out the Luke Bitmead Bursary. Submissions for the 2012 contest are open from now until 3rd August. It’s for UK residents only. This is the contest I entered back in 2008 and, to my amazement, [...]

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“A Pale View of Hills” by Kazuo Ishiguro

28 December 2008 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

Most of this novel is memory: a woman thinking about her daughter’s suicide and remembering an earlier summer in post-War Nagasaki. Almost nothing happens in the present day. The whole story takes place in the past. And the story in the past is full of holes. At first this annoyed me but, the more I [...]

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