Resevoir
Writing Singers not Sinners
Writing Singers Not Sinners
Short Story Month: ‘The Last Shaman’
Review of ‘The Dressing-Up Box’ by David Constantine
Short Story Month: ‘Callow’
Review of Nikolai Leskov stories
Review of ‘Orange World’ by Karen Russell
What Manchester means to me
For Art’s Sake
Naughty Sophia
Write Practice
From Court to Cloister
Pen versus Sword: how the first Tudor king rewrote history
Reading the Market
What I’m Reading Now
Hilary or Florence?
Thinking Big
Blog 2
By livimichael-admin
/ July 10, 2022
The concept of free will is one of the major questions of neuroscience. It’s a controversial question, since there seems…
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By livimichael-admin
/ June 26, 2022
Writing novels is solitary work. You have to enjoy doing independent research and sitting in front of the PC for…
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By livimichael-admin
/ April 11, 2022
Writing novels is solitary work. You have to enjoy doing independent research and sitting in front of the PC for…
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By livimichael-admin
/ September 12, 2021
In 1952, after the Chinese Revolution the leaders of the Oroquen agreed to give up their superstitions and religious practices….
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By livimichael-admin
/ July 21, 2021
David Constantine, The Dressing-Up Box, Comma Press, £14.99 In the third short story in this collection, Siding with the Weeds,…
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By livimichael-admin
/ June 19, 2021
Keith’s mother had once told him it had taken four years of trying before he was born and then another…
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By livimichael-admin
/ April 25, 2021
A new edition of the selected stories of Nikolai Leskov (1831-95)! Although less widely known than Tolstoy or Chekhov, he…
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By livimichael-admin
/ April 16, 2021
Loved these visionary stories! Read my full review here. Orange World, by Karen Russell
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By livimichael-admin
/ October 15, 2020
When I was a child I lived in a council flat on the seventh floor of a tower block in…
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By livimichael-admin
/ September 14, 2018
Earlier this year I visited my son and his girlfriend in Switzerland and was taken to see the Collection de…
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By livimichael-admin
/ May 17, 2018
Well! I’ve just discovered that Naughty Sophia was written by Winifred Mary Letts, who was born on 10 February 1882…
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By livimichael-admin
/ May 1, 2018
At some point in my childhood I announced that I wanted to be a writer. I usually say I was…
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By livimichael-admin
/ August 24, 2016
From Court to Cloister After nine years of research there is one moment that stands out to me, among all…
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By livimichael-admin
/ August 11, 2016
Pen versus Sword: how the first Tudor king rewrote history. Henry Tudor’s victory at the Battle of Bosworth changed history…
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By livimichael-admin
/ August 1, 2016
Obviously, people read for different reasons; to switch off, to turn on, to be informed about the world they…
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By livimichael-admin
/ January 5, 2016
Of all the books that I currently have on my bedside table (and it is a considerable pile) the most…
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By livimichael-admin
/ October 2, 2015
Two nights ago I attended a wonderful reading by Hilary Mantel at MMU. She was magnificent – wise, witty and…
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By livimichael-admin
/ August 10, 2015
Rebellion, the sequel of Succession is out this week. This has led me to consider what I might say about it,…
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