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The Man Who Was Magic by Paul Gallico My rating: 5 of 5 stars What would happen if one day a genuine magician with real magic came to a city of illusionists who live entirely in a world of artifice and sleight of hand? This is one of the very few books that I have [...]
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Since the beginning of March this year I have been podcasting my short stories/fables/fairytales as “Stories from the Borders of Sleep“. It has been pretty exciting to see the listnership grow as we (that’s me and my producer, Tim, and Illustrator, Robyn) have started to put new episodes out on a fortnightly basis. There are [...]
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I’m proud to announce the launch of my new podcast, “Stories from the Borders of Sleep.” This project has been taking up a large amount of my time over the past few weeks and I offer it by way of an excuse for being absent from this blog for a while. Since November last year, [...]
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Twenty-one Stories by Graham Greene My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book was my first exposure to Graham Greene. I very quickly found myself reading (and more or less enjoying) these perfectly crafted stories as items of social history and examples of wonderfully understated prose in which no word is wasted. I couldn’t say [...]
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A few weeks ago I set out to complete a series of short stories, little self contained pieces of narrative that had been turning over in my head for a while. Some of them were waking fantasies and other were remembered dreams. I thought getting about seven of them down on paper would be a [...]
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