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Robert Crouch (left) and Peter Rowlands. Writing books tends to be a solitary pursuit. You think thoughts, work out ideas, then sit down at a keyboard and convert them into prose. Maybe you dip in and out of online writers’ … Continue reading →
The dilemma faced by journalist Mike Stanhope in Not Exactly True I remember listening in dismay to the TV correspondents who reported on the 2008 financial crash. Night after night, they would tell us in lugubrious tones how the contagion … Continue reading →
Can a novel be crafted effectively round a major world crisis such as coronavirus while it the crisis still under way, and before the outcome is known? Continue reading →
I’ve published a remarkable real-life diary on my web site – an account by two women in their mid-twenties of a Scottish cycling tour they did in 1943. Continue reading →
How long will it be before anyone can write a contemporary novel again without having to reflect the impact of the coronavirus? Continue reading →
How do self-published authors sell their books? Mike Stanhope thinks he has an answer, but in the new mystery thriller ‘The Concrete Ceiling’ it rebounds on him in ways he never expected, with alarming consequences. Continue reading →
If you’re wondering what happened to The Concrete Ceiling, the next novel in the Mike Stanhope Mysteries series, blame Brexit! I’ve been so absorbed by what’s happening in the UK that everything else seems to have been neglected. But fear not – it’ll be out in March. Continue reading →
Why have media interviewers so consistently failed to press politicians on the more outrageous or logically untenable arguments in the Brexit debate? Politicians may have let us down by placing dogma or party considerations ahead of the common good, but the media is not blameless in letting this happen. Continue reading →
It seems to me that there is absolutely no defensible argument to justify the implementation Brexit against the apparent wish of a majority of the current population – or to deny that population the opportunity to test public opinion in a confirmatory referendum. Continue reading →
The Britain which is approaching the Brexit date is not the same Britain as the one responsible for the two-year-old referendum vote. What possible reason could there be for denying the true democracy of asking its citizens in a second referendum what they want NOW? Continue reading →