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THE BELLBOY – ZAGAVA 2018

In 1932, young Walter Matthews finds life in Battersea with his sneering father and simpering mother close to unbearable. His only solace is his passion for all things Egyptian and his adoration for the manly figure of Howard Carter, whose splendid discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb is constantly in the news. When he starts work asContinue Reading

32. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA

April 2nd 2017:- Another good writing day, although I started off plunging into a scene which didn’t belong where I had put it, but I finished it, and then when back to the beginning of the chapter and put in the more important scene in which the main character works out a way to find enoughContinue Reading

OSCAR WILDE UP CLOSE

I discovered Frank Harris, the writer and friend of Oscar Wilde’s the other day, and started to read his biography/memoir of Wilde. It’s captivating in its plain honesty. I find it very hard to read ‘modern’ fiction these days, because the hype around books is so excessive and ill-considered. On the few occasions I sampleContinue Reading

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