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 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 • 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