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Book Review: A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale

Gale leaves his usual Cornwall for Canada in his latest novel to tell the story of Harry Kane, Gale’s great grandfather. Harry’s emigration, disappearing without reason to Canada inspired this story. Gale wondered what caused him to leave the relative affluence… Continue Reading →

Do something that scares you…

In NLP, there’s a great saying: if you do what you always do, you get what you always got I’m not sure who it’s attributable to, but it really struck me. Want to change? Then change the things you do,… Continue Reading →

Meeting readers

Patrick Gale was recently in our fantastic independent bookstore, The Falmouth Bookseller, at the beginning of his book signing tour. It was an unticketed event (unlike many on his tour), and when I was there, there was only a chap… Continue Reading →

The inner critic is in the Fogou

It’s three weeks in since I left Rosemerryn and The Writer’s Retreat, and I am feeling heartily glad that I attended.  It has reinvigorated my writing.  Hurrah!  There are many gems that I’ve picked up along my writing journey –… Continue Reading →

Book Review: Playing Mrs Kingston, by Tony Lee Moral

Playing Mrs Kingston is set in 1950s New York, and tells the story of Catriona Benedict, an actress with ambitions.  To the dismay of her boyfriend, she agrees to play the role as the wife of Miles Kingston, a rich… Continue Reading →

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