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Andrew Acre has retired to Northumberland, the most northern county of England, famous for its castles (including Alnwick Castle with links to Harry Potter) and its scenery.

Andrew has always been interested in what he terms "faction", fiction which is used to draw attention to a real issue in need of greater airing. He quotes almost anything by Dickens, Birdsong and more recently Of Human Folly as being great examples of this.

His first book, Second Chances is a romantic novel based around a princess heroine who decides to launch a new charity "Second Chances". This aims to help those-like herself- who have made a serious mistake and need to recover and rise again. In the process she meets her White Knight, and together they struggle against
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Second Chances

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Alnwick Story Fest

Really enjoyed attending a session at our local book festival, Alnwick Story Fest.

I notice that on the masthead of the programme it claims that Alnwick is "The Story Capital of England". That is quite a bold assertion, but to be fair they had some really good speakers and interviewees as usual over the three days. These included Anne Cleeves, Chris Bostock, Peter Bromley and many more recognised Read more of this blog post »
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" My name is Andrew Acre, and my first novel, " Second Chances" is now out, on Olympia Publishers.

My wife and I live in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
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Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
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This is not a massive tome by any means, 160 pages of quite a large font. It is nevertheless an intriguing read, which could have made a great film ( I have not seen it, but most reviews of the film are regrettably quite chilly).

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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
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The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton
The First Gentleman
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This is a book of so many chapters, it's dazzling -142 in all: even though some are barely a page long. This allows the action to be progressed along several fronts at once, so as a device, it has its benefits. On the downside, if you put the book do ...more
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The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell
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The six beautiful, clever Mitford sisters were a collective honeypot which attracted almost every famous man of their generation. As relation, friend or lover this roll call included Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Oswald Moseley, Evelyn Waugh, the ...more
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The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
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This trilogy may have won a Booker prize and I have just read this, the final book but I'm not impressed.

The apparent objective of it, and I presume all 3 titles is to paint the picture of WW1 as a horrid, pointless, cruel war that caused untold suf
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Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
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Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
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As the UK's most famous lexicographer, it's not surprising that Suzie Dent set her first novel in the offices of a (mythical) dictionary, and in Oxford. The whole book is a loving tribute to the city and its literary history. If you love words, cross ...more
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