Alison Ripley Cubitt's Blog
May 13, 2018
How I Write – Eden Sharp
I’m delighted to welcome my guest today crime writer Eden Sharp who is busy working on Get 9 and Zero Day, Books 2 and Books 3 of her Vigilante Investigator Justice Series. Over to you, Eden. I started off by telling myself I’d write on certain days. In a spare moment, I’d plotted out my […]
April 17, 2018
Hannah F: The Women Who Made Me
This post for the genealogy project The Women Who Made Me is the story of a girl from Cobh who ended up working for the British in the overseas division of what we know now as Bletchley Park. Like the other wives who worked alongside her employed as local staff, her work was neither acknowledged […]
March 31, 2018
How I Write by Isabel Murray
My guest today is the ever-inspiring Isabel Murray, who despite all the obstacles she faced somehow just couldn’t stop herself from writing. Over to you, Isabel. All those blogs and posts about maintaining the discipline to write, to carve out the time, to find the time, to make the time. Interesting really, that I, who […]
February 5, 2018
A Case Study of Writing in Collaboration: Academic Author + Screenwriter = Thriller
A Case Study of Writing in Collaboration: Academic Author + Screenwriter = Thriller
February 4, 2018
My Writing Routine with Sarina Langer
My guest today is Sarina Langer, who as well as having a part-time day job is both an author as well as an editor. I love reading about other people’s routines, don’t you? I admire anyone who can fit their passion around a full-time job, raising three kids, and keeping their marriage happy. (Pass on […]
January 17, 2018
Book Review of Elizabeth Strout’s Amy & Isabelle
Isabelle and Amy are a mother and teenage daughter, living together in a single parent household in the 1970s in the fictional Maine town of Shirley Falls. It could be any rural town in New England: conservative and provincial in outlook and a far cry from the sophisticated big city of Boston. Although not particularly […]
December 30, 2017
How I Write – Ernest Hemingway
I was in Key West, Florida, on a literary pilgrimage to visit the home of hell-raiser, game hunter, cat and wife collector, war hero and writer, Ernest Hemingway. History of the Hemingway House Hemingway spent his most focused and productive years at the Key West home he shared with Pauline Pfeiffer, his second wife. Pauline’s […]
October 26, 2017
October 24, 2017
The Girl From County Clare by Vicky Adin
The Girl of the title is Brigid, with the misfortune to grow up in an Ireland, post-famine, when it was still under British rule. As a young woman from a working-class rural background, Brigid’s choices were stark: stay and risk starvation or emigrate as a free settler to Australia, a strange and inhospitable land on […]
August 13, 2017
Girl from the North Country
Love music and coming to London? Shirley Henderson (and the rest of this fine cast) belts out Dylan like you’ve never heard before in Girl From the North Country on at the Old Vic until 7 October. Conor McPherson is a risktaker: Paula, his tv thriller was so dark I struggled to watch it. But […]
