Jim Murdoch
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born
May 04, 1959
gender
male
place of birth
Glasgow, The United Kingdom
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genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Keith Waterhouse, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka
member since
August 2007
about this author
I was born in Glasgow in 1959 and although throughout my life I have lived in most parts of Scotland I have found myself continually drawn back to the "friendly city" where I now live quietly on the outskirts with my wife.
My writing career began at school and I continue to write and publish poetry to this day. During the nineties I experienced a length period of writer's block - it lasted two years - then one day I sat down and started writing. Twenty-one pages left I had the bare bones of a novel, Living with the Truth.
Since then I've started to broaden my horizons completing two plays and a decent body of short stories. I am currently struggling with my fifth novel and it's winning.
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Living with the Truth by Jim Murdoch (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2008 |
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Living with the Truth (Literature & Fiction)
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A novel about a old bookseller who finds himself forced to spend two days with the personification of truth.
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Gentlemen (Paperback) by Klas Östergren |
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recommended for: People who have a lot of time on their hands read in June, 2009 
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"The core of the book is a universal one, the younger man enthralled by an older one. In this case it's the twenty-five year-old narrator/author who is taken under the wing of Henry Morgan, a “pianist, boxer and charmer”, who although only ten yea...more
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Gentlemen (Hardcover) by Klas Östergren, Tiina Nunnally |
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Jim said "maybe" to attending the event: Goodreads June Newsletter Contest.
date: May 24, 2009 12:42PM location: GOODREADS ¡ POETRY ! Group, 123 Goodreads, Massapequa, NY, The United States description: Want your words to reach nearly two million people? Goodreads and the ¡Poetry! group have partnered to create a contest in order to select a new poem each month for our newsletter. 1. Post your best poem here (*one poem per person*) in this folder (below as a "comment"). 2. Goodreads and I will select five poems each month to be voted on by the Goodreads community. 3. ¡Poetry! group members will vote for the poem they like best (one vote pe...more | |
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Laidlaw (Paperback) by William McIlvanney |
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recommended for: People who don't think they'd like detective fiction
read in January, 1977
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"This a not a whodunnit. We're never in any doubt about who did what. McIlvanney is an educated writer and Jack Laidlaw is not your average detective, something of a cross between Columbo and Morse. His writing style is poetic, the chapters short and ...more
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Dearest Father (Oneworld Classics) by Franz Kafka |
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No One Belongs Here More Than You (Paperback) by Miranda July |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
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recommended for: Anyone who thinks they are having problems coping
read in January, 1975
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"This was the first book I bought after I left school, my first adult book. I remember the experience as if it was yesterday. It was in a small bookstore-come-newsagents in Ayr. I can't remember buying any book before that, besides I bought this with ...more
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The Optimist: One Man's Search for the Brighter Side of Life (Paperback) by Laurence Shorter |
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