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An evening with Mark Billingham & Martyn Waites

Pandora — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:58:31 +0000

A mild Tuesday night in October and I join about 80 people streaming into the Compass Theatre to listen to Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites talk about their new books. This talk was one of the author events from this year’s Hillingdon Culture Bites festival. I was, of course, busy listening to these two talk, […]

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The Word is Murder – Anthony Horowitz

Pandora — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 21:42:10 +0000

Anthony Horowitz I found this book on offer at my local supermarket. Having never read an Alex Rider novel, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the idea of Horowitz moving from Young Adult stories into Adult stories intrigued me. [amazon_link asins=’1406364835,1406360198,1406360201,B00B3VIXX6′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’inkblot-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’d1fc2a3a-60f8-11e8-8b8c-8ff254e67f43′] When I picked up the book, I was unaware […]

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Bookshots – by James Patterson

Pandora — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:34:04 +0000

“Bookshots – the revolution in reading” With over 100 fiction novels under his belt, James Patterson is nothing if not prolific, how then can he be more so? By writing shorter books of course. Bookshots are the new ‘revolution’ or “gimmick” to come from the marketing team that James Patterson clearly works with. It’s almost […]

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A steamroller vs a hard-drive

Pandora — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 19:35:37 +0000

It was August 25th in a sunny field in Dorset, people were leisurely going about their day visiting a local steam fair, unaware that the death of a universe was taking place just yards away. A last goodbye to the Discworld This was a relatively young universe, as far as one can really measure these […]

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Female authors are taking over… or are they?

Pandora — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 17:03:57 +0000

Sexism in the publishing industry – Is the shoe on the other foot in today’s market? It has long been believed that people prefer to read books by authors of the same sex as them – I call bullshit! I for one am not drawn to female authors. In fact in most cases, unless […]

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