Literary events Austin Clarke at Bim Literary Festival After my unintended gatecrashing of a class with Derek Walcott earlier in the day, this was an event I was actually allowed to attend.…
Literary events Learning from Derek Walcott: Bim Literary Festival, day one How often do you get to meet a Nobel Prize winner? That was my main rationale for going along to a Master…
Literary events Great opportunity for unpublished UK writers If you are an unpublished UK writer with a novel manuscript ready for submission, I’d strongly recommend that you check out the…
On the Holloway Road How to write a book review Just saw a nice post on Read.Learn.Write which goes into the methodology of writing book reviews, using my novel On the Holloway…
The writing process How writers generate ideas One of the most common questions I'm asked whenever I give a talk is "How do you generate ideas?" The honest answer…
Reading The Sense of an Ending, explained A quick explanation of the ending of Julian Barnes's novel The Sense of an Ending—followed by a long discussion in the comments for those…
Uncategorized How much would you pay for a short story? Quick question for you. I’m thinking of making some of my short stories available for download from this site, but am not…
Living Beauty is a sleeping cat So, a post in honour of one of my favourite book blogs. My wife and I have adopted a little kitten here in…
Reading Where are the Women? Palestinian Women by Fatma Kassem This book is a series of accounts by Palestinian women who lived through the ‘Nakba’ of 1948,…