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A big thanks to the wordsmiths | Carmen Reid's Electric Notebook
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Who is Annie Valentine? Carmen Reid's Electric Notebook. What to read, what to write, what to wear… and other daily dilemmas. A big thanks to the wordsmiths. Posted by Carmen Reid. Asymp; Leave a comment. It’s April, months after I handed my final manuscript for Cross My Heart. In Bless the editor who has just sent an email after she’s taken another final, final. Look through before the pages go to typesetting to ask if ‘stretch of woodland’ wouldn’t be better than ‘woodland’? Due to maternity leave and ...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: A26 | Roadkill | Pascal Garnier
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Tuesday, 22 January 2013. A26 Roadkill Pascal Garnier. Pascal Garnier’s The A26. this is literary fiction with a hapless, desperate serial killer. At first Garnier seems intent on playing this for laughs as if the victims are utterly meaningless and that jars a bit. But as the book went on it began to really grip me. The truth that is revealed is that for these Frenchmen and women the war has never really ended, and they are the poorer for it. Stuck In A Book.
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: Has the Black Swan Stolen an Oscar?
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Friday, 1 April 2011. Has the Black Swan Stolen an Oscar? Will Natalie Portman one day come to regret ever taking the lead role in Black Swan. This Guardian blog sums up the case neatly enough. If that is the case, shouldn't the dancing have come across a little better? The dancing, at least the effort she put into it, regardless of the fact that it still looked less than you would see in a proper ballet, lifted the performance up two, three, ten levels. If ther...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: Goodbye Iain Banks | Scottish author of The Wasp Factory, Culture, The Crow Road
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Monday, 10 June 2013. Goodbye Iain Banks Scottish author of The Wasp Factory, Culture, The Crow Road. The end when it came was far more sudden, far swifter than anyone had thought. Ian Rankin, his friend and fellow Fifer, in a touching, off the cuff,passionate tribute, told the BBC news last night. That even as recently as last Tuesday doctors had told the author that he had months rather than weeks to live. It turned out to be days. His Scottishness might have ...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: SAS man hits the high street | Theo Knell struggles to adjust
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Friday, 23 November 2012. SAS man hits the high street Theo Knell struggles to adjust. If there is ever an invasion. I want. TheoKnell on my side. Theo served with the British Army, including the SAS, for 22 years. A Hell for Heroes. Is his attempt to give an honest account of army life and very importantly, life after the army. But when they are thrown out into Civvy Street, all the structure, camaraderie and usefulness is gone, leaving a terrible vacuum. Theo ...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: An Elk is for life, not just for Christmas... Doppler
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Tuesday, 22 January 2013. An Elk is for life, not just for Christmas. Doppler. The cover of Doppler. By Erlend Loe comes with a neat little tagline: “An elk is for life. not just for Christmas.”. Doppler is middle aged, his father has just died, and he’s fallen off his bike. So he leaves his comfortable Oslo home, takes a tent and heads off to live in the woods, “adopts” an elk calf and calls him Bongo. The Steven Van Zandt comedy BBC4 ran recently – perha...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: CJ Sansom | Dominion | Nazis in Great Britain
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Friday, 23 November 2012. CJ Sansom Dominion Nazis in Great Britain. He is best known for his historical detective series starring the Tudor hunchback, Shardlake – think Wolf Hall crossed with Inspector Morse. But with Dominion, CJ Sansom takes history by the neck and sends it flying. “What if,” he’s asking, “Germany hadn’t lost the war? We’ve been here before. The author has already highlighted two influences in Len Deighton’s SS-GB. As a Scot, Sansom saves som...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: Pow! First impressions of a controversial Chinese literary POWerhouse
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Tuesday, 22 January 2013. First impressions of a controversial Chinese literary POWerhouse. Thinking about it, 2013 has to be the ideal time to focus on the big wide world. The last twelve months have, after all, been so bloody British: Jubilee, Olympics, about a dozen pageants, Dickens, Shakespeare, even Scottish independence. There were entire weeks when you wondered if the rest of the globe had shut down completely. I’m no Mo Yan expert (who is? I found it di...
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BOOK DOG | THOMAS QUINN: November 2012
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BOOK DOG THOMAS QUINN. One page at a time. Friday, 23 November 2012. SAS man hits the high street Theo Knell struggles to adjust. If there is ever an invasion. I want. TheoKnell on my side. Theo served with the British Army, including the SAS, for 22 years. A Hell for Heroes. Is his attempt to give an honest account of army life and very importantly, life after the army. But when they are thrown out into Civvy Street, all the structure, camaraderie and usefulness is gone, leaving a terrible vacuum. He is...
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