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Book scheme set for overseas chapters

Posted on 2 March 2009 In Investigative Journalism, Published Articles, What Authors Need To Know

The Financial Times 2nd March 2009 Mick Neville had not read a book in 10 years. Now, three years after joining a workplace reading movement, he cannot get enough of books. Last Thursday he was welcomed at 10 Downing Street as one of a handful of Reading Heroes honoured by
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Melvyn Bragg: Why I’m still haunted by my first wife’s suicide

Posted on 1 March 2009 In Celebrity Interviews, Published Articles

The Daily Mail 28th February 2009 There is a book in Melvyn Bragg’s library that he cannot bring himself to read. It isn’t badly written or one he finds distasteful. It has featured on literary prize shortlists around the world and earned its author plaudits. Yet still the book broods
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The phantom premise

Posted on 4 February 2012

Mslexia 50, summer 2011 Ghost stories are the biggest trend in fiction right now, Danuta Kean discovers the rules of writing a bestseller Like the spectre in M R James’s The Mezzotint, ghost stories have crossed the literary landscape and passed through genre boundaries to become the fastest rising trend.
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It’s good to be back

Posted on 3 February 2012

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I’ve been away for a while, but I’m back with a relaunched site that will continue to provide a reality check about publishing as well as reviews of books for toddlers (Babster’s Books) and life as the surrendered wife of a Frenchman (if
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Je suis une housewife….among other things

Posted on 3 January 2012

Welcome to the Madame Perrier section of my blog. It is a personal blog – as opposed to being about books, business or otherwise – in which I will write about daily life, motherhood and the general concerns of a 21st Century woman trying to juggle too much. If you wonder
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