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Best TED Talk I’ve seen in ages: Learn Chinese in 6 minutes!
Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! Amazing little video and well worth 6mins of your time! #language#chinese#fun
Author Guest Post! Claire Varley talks about the pressure to be ‘wordy’ all the time..
I was lucky enough to pose a question to Claire Varley, author of The Bit Inbetween. Here is here brilliantly funny guest post response! ‘Being a writer, do you feel under pressure to be 'wordy' and impressive all the time? Even in birthday cards and comments boxes on questionnaires?’…
Tom Houghton – When you love a character so much, you are glad they aren’t real..
Tom Houghton is twelve years old. He is different and the others know it. Some tiptoe around it, whisper loudly about it, some bully him mercilessly, and very few embrace him for it. Fast forward to Tom Houghton at forty. The book unfolds as we wind our way through…
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding – A graceful, cold, Japanese tale,with a raw core
Duffy’s review The ebb and flow of this book is extremely graceful. The words move through the pages like an old Japanese play and the spoken language drifts you gently to Nagasaki. A stranger knocks on the door of Amaterasu’s home and says he is her Grandson, thought dead. It…
My Q&A with Pamela Hart – Author of The Soldiers Wife
Read my Q&A's here with Pamela Hart who wrote The Soldiers Wife, published by Hachette. Some great tips for any budding writers and bookworms! 'Did you feel any pressure to have any blockbuster endings or shocking plot twists to get the book on the store shelves?' No, not at…
Season of Shadow and Light – Much more than a country story
I am privileged to be part of the Season of Shadow and Light blog tour and I gained far more than a free book for review! Season of Shadow and Light isa book I never would have picked up had I seen it on a bookshelf, and I would have been…
The Stranger – Stranger danger at it’s most chilling (Review)
Adam Price lives a comfortable, average life with a beautiful school teacher wife and two teenage sons. Life is good, until a stranger approaches him at a bar one night and delivers a shocking secret that will tear his cookie cutter world apart. Stranger Danger was drummed into me…
Everybody is somebody elses weirdo – My review of If I Fall, If I Die
I have just finished If I Fall, If I Die, and it is beautiful. This book is the story of Will, a young lad with an agoraphobic mother, living in a large house with rooms named after cities. Cairo, Toronto and Paris become their cocooned world filled with art, creativity…
The Two Of Us – Warning: It could read too close to home!
William meets the love of his life, Ivy. They are a couple before they even go on a date. He doesn't know the tiniest of details about his beautifully scarred, enigmatic lover. Who is her favourite Beatle? What was the name of her first pet? What is her middle name?…
Book Review – Black Moon – Can you sleep?
Imagine if one night you couldnt get to sleep. Just lying there awake, unable to drift off. Imagine if you couldn't sleep the following night or the night after that, the days and nights begin to blur as your speech begins to slur, anxiety and frustration consume every minute and…