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Review of ‘Ghostland’ by Edward Parnell

27/10/2021 nsford 5 Comments

This is a stunning, haunting memoir blended with nature writing and literary criticism. One of the best elements is the…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Edward Parnell, films, horror, memoir, non-fiction, reviews, travel, TV, writers

A visit to the British Library

29/09/2021 nsford 16 Comments

It was a humid, cloudy Saturday in late September and a few years since I was last at the British…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: experiences, libraries, writers

Review of ‘Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde’ by Franny Moyle

12/09/2021 nsford 4 Comments

So much has been written about Oscar Wilde. But what about his wife, Constance? It’s wonderful that she has her…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: biographies, books, Constance Wilde, Franny Moyle, non-fiction, Oscar Wilde, reviews, writers

Review of ‘Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense’ by Jenny Uglow

11/10/2020 nsford 4 Comments

Most of us know Edward Lear as the ‘nonsense poet’, writer of such well-loved gems as ‘The Owl and the…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: biographies, books, Edward Lear, non-fiction, reviews, writers

Review of ‘The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah’

23/09/2020 nsford 10 Comments

The autobiography of poet, musician and activist Benjamin Zephaniah is a brilliant read, written in a straightforward style with short…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Benjamin Zephaniah, books, memoir, non-fiction, reviews, writers

Review of ‘In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein’ by Fiona Sampson

13/06/2020 nsford 10 Comments

This is an unusual biography of Mary Shelley, the author best known for Frankenstein and The Last Man. I really…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Fiona Sampson, Mary Shelley, non-fiction, reviews, writers

A-Z of my blog!

28/05/2020 nsford 19 Comments

I thought it would be fun to do an A-Z of my blog (too much time on my hands?) so…

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Posted in: Book Reviews, Film & TV, Music, Poetry, Random, Reading, Theatre, Writing Filed under: blogging, books, films, humans, music, poetry, reading, resources, reviews, TV, writers, writing

10 writers I’d love to have coffee with – time travel edition!

05/03/2020 nsford 29 Comments

My previous post on writers I’d love to have coffee with was very popular. My blogger friend Ryan stole my…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Charlotte Brontë, classics, fiction, George Orwell, H G Wells, H P Lovecraft, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Stella Gibbons, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, writers

N S Ford’s Information Superhighway: British Council Literature – Writers Directory

02/07/2019 nsford Leave a comment

Do you love writers? Then check out this resource! From Leila Aboulela to Benjamin Zephaniah, this is an A-Z directory…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: libraries, reading, research, resources, writers

My worst job interviews

20/06/2019 nsford 17 Comments

I’ve had many job interviews over the years. The ones that went badly were sometimes due to me being unprepared…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: employment, humans, random, writers

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