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Owning Gags, Controlling Jokes I had a bit of a mad week last week, but Friday topped the bill. I spent the day working with a guy called Mark Hayes, who came to our school through Konflux Theatre to do a drama workshop during the half term break. I quite liked drama as a kid so I volunteered to take part – besides, I was told it would be an easy ride, just sitting in the background, watching it all come together. Read Full Post
(full blog includes a gory pic of my wound!)
(okay, it's not that gory)
I haven’t written much for a few days due to a slight mishap at the beginning of the week.
We were making fruit salads at school. But as knives are dangerous, a responsible adult was needed to prepare the fruit into sizeable chunks... Read Full Post
I’m hoping to hit the ground running this year. I finished writing Tank’s Field last night. It’s got a slightly younger feel than my regular YA stuff, but it was a story I just had to get out. In many ways it helped blow a lot of cobwebs away – a nice big brain clean out so I can start a new project fresh and uncluttered. But here’s something to think about... Read Full Post
Cue gripping music, drumroll, audience shuffling nervously on their seats. The curtains twitch with hidden movement, and in the dead air before the show begins you can’t help wondering if it’ll match your expectations… Read Full Post
Review: The Boy with the Topknot There is nothing about this book that yells at me to pick it up and read it. Not the cover, not the blurb. Nothing. Subtitled as “A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton” the back cover sells it as a trip down memory lane and hints at a few family skeletons. Big deal. Added to that, it was really difficult to find, so if wasn’t for the local Reading Group suggesting it as a title, I would have never even heard of it A shame really, because what the blurb fails to mention the one thing that held me throughout: mental illness. Read Full Post
So far, most of my posts on this new blog are about Matthew. Can’t resist this next one though. I’ll justify it by using it for a short story. Read Full Post
One of the most depressing books I’ve ever read, and also the most haunting. The Road stays with you long after reading for the sheer bleakness of this compelling, post-apocalyptic novel. It reminded me in part of the novella The Mist by Stephen King, in that there is no explanation of the events that have rendered the world a dying, burnt husk, lifeless and grey. Instead, it focuses on the unnamed central characters, a father and son, in their journey south, avoiding cannibals and torture, to find food and hope... Read Full Post
Just spent a week in Great Yarmouth. Had loads of fun with Matthew and his new chair. It certainly made the holiday a lot easier not having to push his old thing around. I should have included a picture of us in the Corn Mega Maze because there’s no way we could have ever taken his old chair in there. It was full of bumps and furrows, and we managed to get completely lost... Read Full Post
Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
I bought this book up because I wanted to read something different – ie, not a thriller and not YA fiction. When I picked it up I was hooked right away by the way the novel is written to the reader, as though you are the other character in the story. What follows is a lengthy monologue about the life of the MC and his experiences and opinions of the West before and after 9/11. Read Full Post
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