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Thu, 14:45: RT @brookes_hums: History of Art students at @oxford_brookes get unique access to the Print Room in the world-famous @AshmoleanMuseum http:… Thu, 14:59: RT @newscientist: Writing letters by hand produces measurable changes in brain activity compared with typing http://t.co/mjQ9P5AQUC…
Continue readingPeter met the stares of his friends with a grin. ‘How many books are published each year? How many books have ever been published? There’s no such thing as an original story – just an original way of telling the…
Continue readingWed, 17:55: The plus side to sitting on the bus in miles of traffic… I’ve almost finished book no. 37 in 2014… #amreading Wed, 17:55: It’s never good when the bus turns the engine off! Read a quarter if as…
Continue readingAlexandra Fry Private Eye Tutankhamun’s Gift by Angella Graff This is the sequel to Angella Graff’s wonderful adventure-thriller, Alexandra Fry: the Curse of the Lion’s Heart, a story that introduced us to our teenage heroine who can see ghosts, battles…
Continue readingAlexandra Fry Private Eye Tutankhamun’s Gift by Angella Graff This is the sequel to Angella Graff’s wonderful adventure-thriller, Alexandra Fry: the Curse of the Lion’s Heart, a story that introduced us to our teenage heroine who can see ghosts, battles…
Continue readingTue, 12:57: like it when, just occasionally, I write something and I read it back & I think, “Wow, that’s actually really, pretty damn good” #amwriting Tue, 13:04: Looking around The Forum you would be excused from thinking that there…
Continue readingMon, 13:37: Frak off @David_Cameron! #Fracking under peoples homes without their permission? NO WAY. Sign the petition @DECCgovuk http://t.co/8lEnYBZgL5 Mon, 18:23: Monday. Intellectual warm-up of University Challenge; the main event of Only Connect, followed by brain wind down to Grantchester……
Continue readingSun, 15:24: Terry Pratchett on why he becme a storyteller: “Because I realised that you ould tell lies, and change the world a bit.” Sun, 15:28: Was Lucy and David’s Halloween party really 6 years ago today?!? http://t.co/7MaKGruj8Y http://t.co/jS9Sjzzelq Sun,…
Continue reading26 Characters: celebrating childhood story heroes by Cambridge Jones (Photographer) Alice Rochester (Editor), Andy Stanton (Forword) The only problem with this book – the accompanying guide to the inspiring exhibition at Oxford’s Story Museum of the same name – is…
Continue readingSun, 11:20: “I couldn’t speak a coherent sentence when I was little: I found if I wrote things down I could get to the end of a sentence” @GMcCaughrean
Continue readingSat, 14:20: #100HappyDays Day 291: Saturday morning shopping in Bicester including picking up something new to… http://t.co/pJLFTvxhXv Sat, 18:42: The New Inklings http://t.co/orMP4Zp4aq #authors #books #indie #amwriting @FrancesHardinge @rhi_lassiter @MHarrison13 @LuisaPlaja Sat, 19:43: I am 22 books short of 1500…
Continue readingLast Saturday we visited the brilliant 26 Characters exhibition at Oxford’s Story Museum. This morning I was reading some of the accompanying book, and by chance I got to the bit where children’s author Frances Hardinge talks about why she…
Continue readingLast Saturday we visited the brilliant 26 Characters exhibition at Oxford’s Story Museum. This morning I was reading some of the accompanying book, and by chance I got to the bit where children’s author Frances Hardinge talks about why she…
Continue readingFri, 17:56: Anyone else *experience* that rain shower. Now soaked. To. The. Skin. (and beyond) 🙁 Fri, 21:06: #100HappyDays Day 290: Friday night is pizza night. Reminisces of when I used to make this every… http://t.co/siYgBvQ0AG Sat, 10:03: Accidental art……
Continue readingThu, 12:15: @pageboy Do you know how you optimise ePub files to allow real page numbers that you get in some ebooks these days? Thu, 13:38: #100HappyDays Day 289: First taste of the #Brookes150 beer. Strong stuff! Hic! #1HappyYear @…
Continue readingWed, 13:24: #100HappyDays Day 288: Finding the odd moment to write, in The Forum at work, whilst I eat my lunch…… http://t.co/uJNMkNvrht Wed, 13:26: Somethings don’t change… http://t.co/lQSyywQhV3 http://t.co/yRKW9lSSj0 Wed, 14:12: Open Up To Indie Authors http://t.co/YZEet6DzR3 via @UKChange Wed,…
Continue readingYou probably can’t guess how how much fun I’m having with my new story. Peter is turning out to be something of an anti-hero, I think, as I wait for Lucy to make an appearance again. Already there are a…
Continue readingTue, 15:32: 5 of 5 stars to The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory https://t.co/aczV9Qptce Tue, 16:06: The Constant Read: #review of The Constant Princess by @PhilippaGBooks http://t.co/yT4GqftXwD #amreading #TudorCourt Tue, 18:27: #100HappyDays Day 287: #Autumn colours on a blustery day……
Continue readingThe Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory Whilst I enjoy historical fiction, I always approach the genre with a certain amount of trepidation, because of a fear that the characters and the settings are going to confuse me. I therefore was…
Continue readingMon, 18:42: #100HappyDays Day 286: Finishing a 5* 500-page, big, thick, book of historical fiction in just 10… http://t.co/dXTEexQQo2 Mon, 18:44: Is it really two years since I repainted the front door? http://t.co/pwZgZpuoE3 http://t.co/KnY8WtoTcS
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