My Story
I cannot remember a time in my life when I wasn’t surrounded by books. As a kid, I was never happier than when I was perusing the shelves of a library or browsing a second-hand bookshop – apart from being tucked away somewhere reading the books I’d chosen. When I was 11, my family spent […]
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May 29, 2018
On Being … a Beginner
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When was the last time you were a beginner? A time when you felt you didn’t know a thing, perhaps even wondered whether you should even bother trying? And do you remember how you felt? The Little Arthouse When I walked into Vanessa Lombardo’s Little Arthouse studio, I had no intention of picking up a […]
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May 8, 2018
Walking in their Footsteps
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Are you someone who can create entire worlds in your head, like some of the best dystopian and speculative fiction writers I know? Or do you, like me, need to experience a place to be able to write about it? Whether it’s a community history (such as Many Hearts, One Voice) or family history, or […]
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April 3, 2018
I’ve just returned from a short trip to Bintan Island in Indonesia – part holiday and part support crew for my husband, who was competing in a three-day bike race, the Tour of Bintan. With the race as the major focus of our stay, I saw only a tiny part of what there is to […]
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