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The Book Counterpart

Carrying on from my TV- Book related post ‘TV Tie-In Books’, I now want to question the one type of book I purposely neglected. The Factual Counterpart Book. What is that I hear you ask? Have you ever seen a factual documentary on the tele? Whether it is history related, geography related or some celebrity [...]

TV Tie-In Books

We often hear how novels get turned into extremely successful films. Take Ian McEwan’s Atonement for example, Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park or Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Actually the list can be endless. How many films are released each year, would you say, that are based on novels? 50? 100? I, however, have recently been [...]

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt – Book review

I had been looking forward to reading Ragnarok: The End of the Gods for quite some time. Not only because of my love for ancient myths, but also because of the Norse links to my own debut YA novel, The Black Petal. It was also my first A.S. Byatt novel, and after winning the Booker Prize [...]

Shadows of the Realm Book Sale

OK, so i received an invite on Goodreads the other day from Australian author, Dionne Lister, whose debut novel, Shadows of the Realm Book One: Circle of Talia, is on special offer from January 8th – January 22nd, and she kindly asked for the book to be promoted. Of course, i agreed. I have yet [...]

The Father-Daughter Toilet Fiasco

I do realise that this blog post will be seen as TMI (Too Much Information) to some readers. For those who do think this; I sincerely apologise. To all the non-parents out there, I again also apologise. But to those of you who are both not bothered by toilet habits and are parents as well, [...]

2012 Thank You’s

What a year 2012 has been. For me, it has been an up and down year, but one that will stay with me for a while. It was in this year that I started my blog (yes the one you are reading now). It was also the year I finished my debut novel, albeit not [...]

My Christmas Gifts

How is everyone after a busy Christmas? Did you all have lots to eat and see all of your family or did you have a quiet one this year? I had a pretty quiet one, but as usual, my body clock was all out of sync (Night Shift Worker) and i ended up sleeping a [...]

The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling

As most of you are already aware, I am not a JK Rowling fan, that’s to say, her Harry Potter series. But after being won over by the hype of The Casual Vacancy, her first adult novel, I decided to give this a go and thankfully I was proven wrong. The Casual Vacancy is all [...]

I’ll take the film over the book thank you ….

After reading Elizabeth Guizzetti’s recent blog post about the new Hobbit film, it got me thinking about the connection between novels and their film counterparts. Almost all critics will say that the book is much superior to the film, usually because the book is so detailed and full of charm and atmosphere which ultimately doesn’t [...]

New Project Begins

Whilst I have been off work, lazily gently relaxing in front of the TV or catching up on reading, my head has been exploding. Well, not literally but it may have well just supercharged an entire street’s lampposts. I’ve been getting creative ideas left right and centre; a story plot here, a character there – you [...]