C.J. Cooke, also known as Carolyn Jess-Cooke, is formidable in her achievements. An award-winning poet, novelist, academic and mother of four, her latest work is a text-book example for her creative writing students of how to write a tense page-turner that presses all the right buttons.
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, history, year 2020 • Tags: books, fiction, history, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • 0 Comments
Book review – THE PRISONER’S WIFE: this remarkable novel by Maggie Brookes is based on a true story and tells of an almost incredible deception successfully carried out during World War Two
by Barbara Lewis • books, fiction, psychology, psychotherapy, writing, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, fiction, psychology, psychotherapy •
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld published her meditation, as her publicist so aptly describes it, on her own journey from an intellectual understanding to a deep, personal grasp of Freud’s distinction between harrowing grief and the gentler sorrow of mourning in February – when today’s equivalent of Spanish flu had begun to throw wives, husbands, children, lovers across the globe into states of emotion they may never fully process.
by Carla Scarano • art, books, drawing, exhibitions, fiction, year 2019 • Tags: art, books, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions •
Starting from Alice in Wonderland, re-told as Alice St Claire by Hoshino Yukinobu, the Citi Exhibition Manga at the British Museum invites the visitors to enter the rabbit hole of the fabulous manga imaginary world.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, fiction, P W Bridgman, poetry • 0 Comments
P W Bridgman confesses himself pleasantly surprised by an unorthodox combination of poetry collection and murder mystery: he promises however that his review contains no spoilers.
by Terri Thursfield • books, fiction, year 2019 • Tags: books, fiction, Terri Thursfield •
The over-arching title of this eight-volume novel brings to mind the Rougon-Macquart. The comparison is apposite because while Zola structures his series around his faith in biological determinism, Dent’s novel dismisses it as a delusion.
by Stephanie Sears • art, authors, books, drawing, fiction, film, literature, music, painting, playwrights, sculpture, society, theatre, writing, year 2019 • Tags: art, authors, books, drawing, fiction, film, history, literature, music, painting, playwrights, sculpture, society, Stephanie V Sears, theatre, writing •
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
by Jane McChrystal • books, fiction, writing, year 2018 • Tags: books, fiction, Jane McChrystal, writing •
So far, critics seem to agree that Egan has eschewed experimentation on this occasion and turned her hand to an old-fashioned crime thriller wrapped in an historical novel.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • fiction, year 2017 • Tags: fiction, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • 0 Comments
Concluding the London Grip serial story for ChristmasÂ
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • fiction, year 2017 • Tags: fiction, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • 0 Comments
Continuing the London Grip serial story for ChristmasÂ
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • fiction, year 2017 • Tags: fiction, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • 0 Comments
A London Grip serial story for Christmas Â
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, fiction, year 2021 • Tags: books, fiction, Louise Warren • 0 Comments
THE ONCE AND FUTURE MOON : Louise Warren investigates an anthology of speculative fiction compiled and edited by Allen Ashley