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Tag: writing
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Claire-Louise Bennett rolls out her vocabulary with playfulness and honesty, writes Andy Charman in this book review.
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Beautiful and enchanting, Max Newsom’s latest film offers a subtle meditation on youthful innocence and (in)experience.
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Last week, Tecola Smith posted her book of poetry to Oprah Winfrey. ‘I’ve paid for it to be signed for,’ she says, ‘so someone’s going to get it.’ Her poetry collection, She’s My Poetic Philosophy, is based on Tecola’s experiences as a Wellbeing Mentor at a university in Birmingham. They tell the stories of the young women…
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Indie comic team hope to bring new action adventure comic, featuring dinosaurs and time travel, to life.
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A memoir, Wales, and the presence of absence. From conception to finish, it’s taken Pamela Petro eight years to write The Long Field. But it’s a memoir, so it demanded a lifetime of research. Petro writes about events from her own history, her own close relationships, and sews wider observations – about Wales and the world –…
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Five years ago, Pam Petro was visiting her mother in a nursing home in Connecticut. She’d arranged to meet her mother’s caregiving team for a meeting, but she was early, so she went for a walk. It was a walk she’d done before, around a pond in the grounds, but as she set off, she…
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Spiller’s latest comedy space-opera thrill-packed adventure is available for just £1.50
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Samantha Shannon’s The Mask Falling is the fourth book in her The Bone Season series. Shannon finished the first book ten years ago, when she was a nineteen-year-old studying at Oxford. Now an internationally bestselling author, with the rights to adapt sold to Andy Serkis’ production company, Shannon’s reached the mid-point of the saga. ‘This is the point at…
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It’s been a busy decade for Samantha Shannon. A writer of dystopian and fantasy fiction, Shannon signed a six-figure book deal with Bloomsbury back in 2012, when she was just twenty years old and still studying at Oxford. Her debut, The Bone Season, the first in The Bone Season series, went on to become an…
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Dozens of writing competitions for you to get stuck into during 2021.
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