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Pete Langman

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Pete Langman is an editor, academic, cricketer and sometime rock and roll guitarist who holds a PhD on Francis Bacon (the other one), keeps wicket for the Cricketers' Club of London, and was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease at 40. His non-fiction encompasses Cricket, Parkinson’s Disease, Music, History of Science, literature and culture, and has appeared in publications ranging from The Guardian to Guitar and Bass Magazine. He lives between Leiden and Brighton with his partner Dr. Nadine Akkerman, award-winning author of Invisible Agents, who supplies him with extra historical expertise and keeps asking if they can have a cat now, please. ...more

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Pete Langman When I sit down to write, I know within minutes whether there's anything worth writing in there ... if there isn't, there are always a thousand more b…moreWhen I sit down to write, I know within minutes whether there's anything worth writing in there ... if there isn't, there are always a thousand more business-oriented tasks awaiting my attention. If that thought alone doesn't stir me into action, then I get on with editing, accounting, hoovering ... (less)
Pete Langman two years ago I realised I was playing on the same cricket ground as W. G. Grace, and that started me off on a mission to more grounds attached to cou…moretwo years ago I realised I was playing on the same cricket ground as W. G. Grace, and that started me off on a mission to more grounds attached to country houses with ridiculous cricketing history. Before I knew what was happening I was organising a summer of games and writing a book about it ...(less)
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Is silence golden?

To pervert a well-known phrase, 'All that is required for bad books to prevail is that good critics say nothing', and yet, increasingly, that is exactly what is happening in those realms which heft most influence. It may not be happening in the blogosphere, but we'll come to that soon enough.
I recently cut into a twitter conversation, which went something like this:
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“Zachary looked down into the swirling morass that was his beer as the man walked onto the stage and started to play a solo piece, the band respectfully allowing him to start off his set by staking his claim. Zachary would give him staking his claim. He had his guitar nestling close by his side, as always, the leather of the case gently touching his calf, sending an almost erotic charge through his body every time he moved like the less than innocent brush of a future lover's hand on a bare arm.”
Pete Langman, Black Box

“Not so mouthy now, eh, old man?’ Sneered the elder of the two. The girl sat next to him pulled a line of chewing gum out of her mouth, winding it round her finger and then starting to chew it again. She had her other hand on the youth’s thigh, just below his crotch.
‘Yeah, stupid old fucker. Not so mouthy now?’
It was this lack of imagination that he deplored more than anything.
‘Can you boys not think of anything more original?”
Pete Langman, Black Box

“Zachary looked down into the swirling morass that was his beer as the man walked onto the stage and started to play a solo piece, the band respectfully allowing him to start off his set by staking his claim. Zachary would give him staking his claim. He had his guitar nestling close by his side, as always, the leather of the case gently touching his calf, sending an almost erotic charge through his body every time he moved like the less than innocent brush of a future lover's hand on a bare arm.”
Pete Langman, Black Box

“Not so mouthy now, eh, old man?’ Sneered the elder of the two. The girl sat next to him pulled a line of chewing gum out of her mouth, winding it round her finger and then starting to chew it again. She had her other hand on the youth’s thigh, just below his crotch.
‘Yeah, stupid old fucker. Not so mouthy now?’
It was this lack of imagination that he deplored more than anything.
‘Can you boys not think of anything more original?”
Pete Langman, Black Box

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