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Life! Death! Prizes!
Steve May is a very good bloke and a cracking writer. I first met him on a ‘second drafts’ course at the Lumb Bank Arvon centre, where he and his wife Caron were centre directors. All of us on that course were deep into our manuscripts, all ambitious for publication. On the first night we (read more)
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ziggy stardust and the spiders from buckinghamshire
Today, a blue plaque was unveiled in Heddon Street, London, to mark the spot where David Bowie posed for the cover of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. I was too young to be caught up in the mania which followed, and in quite the wrong place anyway (it would be another year before (read more)
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Free Nelson Mandela! (and other arguments for equal marriage)
My mom brought me something fabulous the other day, a relic of my past she’d found when going through a box of old letters. Here it is: It’s a badge I wore pinned to the lapels of a large and shabby secondhand coat towards the end of the eighties. In common with many (but (read more)
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