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Bristol author Jeff Dowson talks books, Bristol and his favourite screenwriters
Director, producer, and screenwriter Jeff Dowson, has added novelist to his string of titles recently and has launched his second series of books set in Bristol. His first is based around Detective Jack Shepherd and is set in the current time. One Fight at a Time (2018) is the beginning of Dowson’s new series, set in the…
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Louise Conan Doyle stars in her own mystery set in Bristol
Californian author John Allen is so convinced that Sherlock Holmes was created by Arthur Conan Doyle’s wife that he has written the first in 12-part series of books in which she is the sleuth. Louise Hawkins Conan Doyle investigates her first mystery in Allen’s book Brimstone, set in Bristol, 1879. Allen was born in California and…
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My naivete at Corbyn being in power and a letter to an MP
to: “MCCARTHY, Kerry” <kerry.mccarthy.mp@parliament.uk> date: 6 July 2017 at 17:06 subject: Re: consultations about budget cuts and a question about business rates Dear Kerry, Thank you once again for being so open to discussion. Your question to Sajid about local councils keeping more of their money https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2017-06-26a.346.5&s=Bristol#g362.3) at least puts his response on record,…
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Bristol Libraries join in with 4000-book giveaway for Crimefest
CrimeFest celebrates 10 years on Saturday 5 May and in celebration is giving away 4000 books. The UK’s biggest crime fiction convention has teamed up with publishers, Goldsboro Books and libraries in Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow and South Tyneside to give away up to 4,000 crime novels for free, two weeks ahead of the crime fiction…
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Review, Reiki Insights by Frans Steins
Frans Steins is the co-founder of the International House of Reiki and Shibumi International Reiki Association with his wife, Bronwen Stiene, with whom he has co-authored several of his books. Reiki Insights is the latest publication and Steins looks back on some of the founders of Reiki and some of the principal insights into the…
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Review, The Body Library by Jeff Noon
The Body Library is the second book in the Nyquist Mysteries series published by Angry Robots but this is the first of Jeff Noon’s books I’ve picked up. There is a fluidness to Noon’s writing that initially made me think The Body Library would be like Ishiguro’s dream-like The Unconsoled. As I read further, however, I…
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Review, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The writing is consistently tremendous. The content? … well, I don’t know. It belies a young person writing literature after having learned of the world mainly from headlines. The characters are the biggest problem and Benjamin’s bizarre immaturity the other. The story idea is great even if the setting is rather Hollywood and shallow. Four…
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Betting the House, Review
By Tim Ross and Tom McTague . Betting the House never once veers from its purpose – to explain what happened during the 2017 general election, including the campaign and the night itself. The authors are political journalists who produced this work within six months; an incredible accomplishment, no doubt in part to their partners who held down the…
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A shawl per ball of yarn
I’ve decided to use only vegan yarn from now on and that has meant mostly cotton, linen and bamboo. However, there have been many sales on at various yarn outlets and I saw some nice-looking acrylic yarn on offer at £1.89 so I thought, why not. I bought it, it looks acrylic and I can’t…
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Review, Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby
You can see Stephen Westaby in action here in this clip from Your Life in Their Hands. This book is a bit like Grey’s Anatomy with each chapter and case study emotionally gripping and heart wrenching (pun not intended). Heart surgeon Stephen Westaby is humble in his arrogance and self-effacing in his success. He knows exactly…
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