Reading/Writing

At the kitchen table, among the fractured rainbow of strewn crayons and sticky notes, they sit together, talking. She has donned the mantle of teacher; he is the willing (for now) pupil, pencil poised and ready, even though words are still being slowly assembled in his written vocabulary. ‘Now, first,’ she says, confident in her [...]

Okay, here we go. I said before Christmas that I admire Anna Funder and wanted to read Stasiland – well, now I have. And all the hype is justified – it’s terrific. I remember when the Berlin Wall fell – it was a month short of my eleventh birthday. As I looked at the news, with the [...]

  I’ve just finished Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes and in hindsight I think I’m relieved I’ve done so without having seen any of the movie adaptations – although I doubt anyone comes to adulthood without discovering the iconic final moments in the Charlton Heston version and what it signifies about what had happened to [...]

As I said the other day, there was a lot of  questions and curiosity about the writing and publishing process after my ‘Blog to Book‘ session with Pip and Kylie (moderated by Valerie) on Friday. I promised I’d write a post about this subject and below are some links I’ve written over the years that will be relevant and [...]