Whether you’re miffed, waffling, ticket-boo or taking the Mickey, the English language is full of words with odd derivations. Just don’t pop your clogs before reading this…
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Category: For Readers
A Short List of Short Novels
According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]
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Free Books!
A couple of my books have been selected by American author Mike Wells as part of his Mysteries & Thrillers[…]
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Harry Potter and the End of Chapter 3
Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]
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The danger of a single story
A fascinating TED talk from Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie … Some of her books: You’ll find another TED talk from[…]
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Hypnotist hypnotises himself
Book review Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter by Scott Adams (My rating: click here.) The[…]
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Famous Razors
Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]
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The stages of a reader
“A little lesbian joke …”
The Bechdel test — sometimes called the Bechdel-Wallace test — began as “a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist[…]
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Advice from J K Rowling
When J K Rowling spotted a Twitter comment from @beauty_jackson that read: “HEY! YOU! You’re working on something and you’re[…]
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