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 / July 20, 2016
A short video about “Accession”.
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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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By livimichael-admin
/ July 27, 2015
It has been more than eight years since I started to write Succession and its sequels. Eight years and four…
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By livimichael-admin
/ July 19, 2015
OK, so, new book out in August, new publicist assigned. The very lovely Julia suggests that I come up with…
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By livimichael-admin
/ January 9, 2015
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By livimichael-admin
/ August 18, 2014
Recent events have triggered an old line of enquiry in me; a search for an answer to something I’ve never…
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By livimichael-admin
/ July 2, 2014
1. It is unique. There exists nowhere else in the world another book of short crime fiction aimed at young…
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By livimichael-admin
/ June 25, 2014
Ah what can I say about my new book? It has the smell of summer leaves or ripe corn and…
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