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Short stories down the (BBC) tube

BBC Radio 4 has been a fantastic champion of the short story and short story writers for many years. It provides one of ...

Free Books put the fear into booksellers

World Book Night, 5 March, is freaking out booksellers. One million free books on the market are gonna kill independent ...

Crossed

The bf, familiar with my irregular craving for 'brit cop drama', was surprised to find an actual brit cop drama on TV ...

The le Carre distortion

"'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold', my third book, changed my life and put me on bare-knuckle terms with my ...

Coming in from the cold

I've been reading THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (John LeCarre) for the past month now -- or so Goodreads tells me ...

25 May: Towel Day

There are few drawbacks to living 'in the future' (i.e. in a city which is 10 hrs in advance of GMT), but one of them ...