Category: reading
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Drilling for gold
When you write fiction you literally have the world at the end of your pen (or computer keyboard). You can choose to construct characters who are not like anyone you have ever met. They may not even be human. Your plot can be as complex as a journey across the universe, or as simple as…
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Goodbye and thank you
Two weeks ago, I woke to the sad news that one of my favourite authors had died. She had dealt with her illness privately and with courage, which meant that many of her readers may have been as shocked as me at the news. Helen Dunmore was just 64 when she died. Much too young.…
Isabella Muir 