“Pockets” by Ann Wooby
I used to belong to a writing group that met once a week at Chipping Norton Theatre. The group contained […]
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Banned Books Week: Why We Should Read the Obscene
by Charlotte Harris The last week of September marks Banned Books Week, an event first launched in 1982 in response
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Meet Deirdre Pippins, Bookaholic Book Influencer and Podcaster Extraordinaire
I had the privilege of being interviewed by Deirdre for her fantastic YouTube channel, Bookaholic. Check out https://www.youtube.com/@TrueBookaholic. As soon
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The Most Heartbreaking Line of Dialogue Ever Written
by Charlotte Harris The Most Heartbreaking Line of Dialogue Ever Written : How Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman Reveals the Human
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What Would You Have Done?
The central story in Richard Vaughan-Davies’s book Fireweed concerns Adam, a young British military lawyer posted to Hamburg in 1947,
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Real History vs Historical Fiction
May I indulge in a moment of shameless namedropping? I am a friend of Dominic Sandbrook, the historian and commentator,
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Squeaky the Spiky Survivor
The French have a delightful expression: ‘Il pleut comme une vache qui pisse,’ which perfectly describes the conditions of a
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Untold Stories: Marginalised Christians in Pakistan
by Mus Coombs Decades ago, during my childhood, I vividly recall seeing weathered women, their skin deeply tanned by the
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Creepy (True!) Story
Seven years before my mother was born, my grandfather, Robert Deans, took a job in the Transvaal on a farm
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My Brother, the Record Setter
By Thea Toocheck Many siblings have a long-established rivalry, but my brother and I get along famously, probably because we
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Letter to My Teenage Self
Dear Teenage Me, Why, oh why won’t you keep a diary? Your memory never gets any better, you know. Who cares
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Books on Location
The setting of a book is sometimes so powerful that it assumes a persona, becoming a character in its own