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We had a great party yesterday at my house in Kent; a big gathering of friends and family, loads of food, wine and frivolity. The occasion? It was to celebrate the christening of my daughter Emma. I have to say that I really enjoyed myself, even the Church bit, in fact especially the Church bit,…
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The Disc-World author Terry Pratchett was once asked by a journalist if he was irritated that J. K. Rowling appeared to have stolen his idea of a talking hat for her Harry Potter books – for those of you who don’t know the books, JK’s hat pronounces on which house new arrivals at Hogwarts will…
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As regular consumers of this column will know, I do a lot of reading, both for pleasure and for the purposes of research. And I was recently perusing a book by Sean McGlynn called By Sword and Fire: Cruelty and Atrocity in Medieval Warfare (paperback published by Phoenix, 2009). The blurb on the back made…
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Here is wishing everyone who reads this blog a wonderful start to a brand new year! No, I haven’t gone mad. The lonely garret life of a writer hasn’t turned me into an eyeball-spinning weirdo – well, no more than I was before – but it does mean that I spend rather a lot of…