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• Category: writing (continued)
  • Nineteen Forty One
  • No fool like an old fool. (1)
  • Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka (1)
  • Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 (2)
  • Not For Long
  • Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (4)
  • Octavio Paz - Separation
  • On being a writer . . . (3)
  • On not winning the Nobel Prize
  • On the English Language (10)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (4)
  • Open Secrets by Alice Munro (1)
  • Orhan Pamuk (4)
  • Out of Nothing (7)
  • Out Stealing Timber I (2)
  • Out Stealing Timber II (1)
  • Out Stealing Timber III
  • Out Stealing Timber IV (2)
  • Out Stealing Timber IX (1)
  • Out Stealing Timber V
  • Out Stealing Timber VI (1)
  • Out Stealing Timber VII (3)
  • Out Stealing Timber VIII (1)
  • Out With The Old (6)
  • Out-takes I (1)
  • Out-takes II
  • Out-takes III
  • Out-takes IV (2)
  • Out-takes IX (1)
  • Out-takes V
  • Out-takes VI (13)
  • Out-takes VII (3)
  • Out-takes VIII
  • Out-takes X
  • Out-takes XI
  • Out-takes XII (8)
  • Out-takes XIII
  • Out-takes XIV
  • Out-takes XIX (1)
  • Out-takes XV
  • Out-takes XVI
  • Out-takes XVII (2)
  • Out-takes XVIII (2)
  • Out-takes XX
  • Out-takes XXI
  • Out-takes XXII (2)
  • Out-takes XXIII (1)
  • Out-takes XXIV (1)
  • Out-takes XXV (1)
  • Out-takes XXVI (2)
  • Out-takes XXVII (2)
  • Outer Life; Inner Life (11)
  • Pablo Neruda (6)
  • Pantheism (4)
  • Papa's Place (1)
  • People will stop writing? (5)
  • Philip Roth Talks To Hermione Lee
  • Pink - Dear Mr President (8)
  • Plan B (5)
  • Please Stop Writing (5)
  • Poet in New York (2)
  • Political Education: Joseph Stalin in Hull (1)
  • Politics and the English Language (3)
  • Politics, Real Life & the Crime Novel (2)
  • Poverty - Oct 15th (1)
  • Preaching in the Desert (2)
  • Presque vu IV (3)
  • Presque vu IX (1)
  • Presque vu IX (8)
  • Presque vu L (1)
  • Presque vu LIII
  • Presque vu LIV
  • Presque vu LIX
  • Presque vu LV
  • Presque vu LVI
  • Presque vu LX (1)
  • Presque vu LXIII
  • Presque vu LXIV (2)
  • Presque vu LXIX (1)
  • Presque vu LXV
  • Presque vu LXXI
  • Presque vu LXXIV (2)
  • Presque vu LXXIX (1)
  • Presque vu LXXVIII (1)
  • Presque vu V (5)
  • Presque vu VI (1)
  • Presque vu VII (2)
  • Presque vu VIII (1)
  • Presque vu X (2)
  • Presque vu XI
  • Presque vu XI (1)
  • Presque vu XII (3)
  • Presque vu XIII (1)
  • Presque vu XIX
  • Presque vu XV
  • Presque vu XVI (2)
  • Presque vu XVII
  • Presque vu XX
  • Presque vu XXIII
  • Presque vu XXIV (1)
  • Presque vu XXV
  • Presque vu XXVI
  • Presque vu XXVIII
  • Presque vu XXX
  • Presque vu XXXI (2)
  • Presque vu XXXXII
  • Presque vu XXXXIII
  • Presque vu XXXXIV (1)
  • Presque vu XXXXVI
  • Presque vu XXXXVIII (1)
  • Presque vu XXXXVIIII (2)
  • Press Freedom Index (4)
  • Pride and Prejudice resubmitted
  • Public Lending Right (2)
  • Rain All the Way at Hay (3)
  • Re-reading JM Coetzee's Disgrace (10)
  • Reflections in a Golden Eye (4)
  • Relationships (1)
  • Restless by William Boyd - a review
  • Rimbaud - the one who got away (2)
  • Robert Frost Unplugged (1)
  • Roll over Rebus (3)
  • Sad Books Again (8)
  • Saddest Books Revisited (44)
  • Sand Storm Author quits (4)
  • Saving Caravaggio by Neil Griffiths (7)
  • Scotland's Literary Culture (5)
  • Secret Lives of Cities
  • Shadowmouth
  • Sharing the Nobel Prize (1)
  • She is me. (4)
  • Simile & Metaphor (11)
  • Six Words (1)
  • Something to Read I - Carol Shields (3)
  • Source Confusions: Distortions of Memory (7)
  • Spare Ribs (6)
  • Stunningly Tedious (2)
  • Summer Returns (4)
  • Super-Cannes by JG Ballard (3)
  • Sweet Corn (5)
  • Sylvia Plath on poems and novels (3)
  • Tango Siempre with Gilad Atzmon
  • Tears Trickle (3)
  • Telling Stories (8)
  • Texting (2)
  • That Book Meme . . . (4)
  • The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler - a review (8)
  • The Amnesiac
  • The Angel of St. Crux (1)
  • The Art of Seduction (7)
  • The Blank Page by KC Constantine (1)
  • The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee - a review (2)
  • The Cherry Orchard (5)
  • The Confessions of a Semi-Successful Author (1)
  • The Da Vinci Code - the movie (8)
  • The Darkroom of Damocles by WF Hermans - a review (18)
  • The Dead - an ending by James Joyce (1)
  • The Dixie Chicks (9)
  • The Doncaster Connection (4)
  • The Dutchess of Malfi (6)
  • The End of Days for Publishers
  • The Flowering Dream (3)
  • The Future of Books and Publishing (2)
  • The Glass Menagerie - a review (9)
  • The Gynaecologist's Wife (2)
  • The History Boys - a review (9)
  • The Hour of the Star - a novel (3)
  • The Inadequacy of our Symbolism
  • The James Patterson Factory (26)
  • The Monster of Florence (11)
  • The Monster of Florence II (1)
  • The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers (5)
  • The Mutt's Nuts (3)
  • The News on TV (5)
  • The Novel - more perspectives
  • The Novel and the Internet and an Old Trout (4)
  • The Oprahfication of fiction (1)
  • The Panting and Happy Reader (4)
  • The Perfect Egg - a book review
  • The Plot Against America (2)
  • The Power Book by Jeanette Winterson (2)
  • The Price by Arthur Miller - a review (6)
  • The Prison of National Vanity (1)
  • The Queen
  • The Rejection Slips (5)
  • The Republic of Love by Carol Shields (14)
  • The responsibility of writers (11)
  • The Rhythm of Language
  • The Saddest Books (48)
  • The Sea by John Banville (5)
  • The Seafarer - a review
  • The Sins of Father Knox (12)
  • The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibin (3)
  • The stuff of dreams - RSC at Newcastle (2)
  • The Survival of Civilization
  • The Sweetest Thing by Fiona Shaw (1)
  • The Tallahatchie Bridge (3)
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (5)
  • The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
  • The Waitress Calls Me Luvie (3)
  • The World's Smallest Poem? (5)
  • The Writers' Police (3)
  • The Writing Shifts Gear (3)
  • They Simply Could Not (1)
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (33)
  • Three Little Pigs (7)
  • Thursday Thoughts: 2
  • Thursday Thoughts: 3 (3)
  • Tillie Olsen (1)
  • To Siberia by Per Petterson - Book review (6)
  • Too Many Magpies by Elizabeth Baines (4)
  • Top 10 Conservative Rock Songs (13)
  • Tourists and Chips
  • Tourists and Chips II
  • Translated Fiction Anyone?
  • Two Beat Poets (7)
  • Volver - the film (2)
  • Waiting for Galatea (2)
  • Waiting for the Physio (2)
  • Wanted: Character for Novel (6)
  • What Is Forgetting? (3)
  • What type of writer should you be? (1)
  • When you catch an adjective, kill it. (1)
  • Where am I? (6)
  • Which Story Should You Tell? (2)
  • White - a novel (2)
  • White Skin Man Reviewed (1)
  • Who is the greatest living writer in the UK? (4)
  • Who is the greatest living writer of the British Isles? (7)
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - the play (7)
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - the text (4)
  • Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood (6)
  • Winged with Death (1)
  • Winged with Death - the artwork (4)
  • Winged with Death - The Audio Cover (3)
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 10
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 11
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 12
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 15
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 4
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 6 (1)
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 7 (1)
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 8 (1)
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 9 (1)
  • WordPress - three times a lady (1)
  • Wordsy (2)
  • World Book Day in Harrogate (3)
  • Wrestling Mad - a bad play (4)
  • Write Every Day (3)
  • Write What You Know?
  • Writer's Notebook (4)
  • Writing - an uncomfortable feeling? (3)
  • Writing - the immediate prospect (1)
  • Writing a Novel (9)
  • Writing Advice from Samuel Beckett
  • Writing Advice: What Anton said (1)
  • Writing Awards (3)
  • Writing Shooting in the Dark (1)
  • Writing The Chinese Girl (2)
  • Writing The Meanest Flood
  • Writing The Wasp Factory (3)
  • Your Ambiguities are Impeccable, Young Man (10)
  • Zadie Smith (2)
  • Zadie Smith on Reading and Writing (5)