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Drew Gummerson
Author of Me and Mickie James (Jonathan Cape) and The Lodger (GMP), and many stories here and there. Follow me at @drewgum. Seven Nights At The Flamingo Hotel is coming November 2020. Pre-order here https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 4
Extract from The Ministry of Complaints reproduced with the permission of Orlando Press. Copyright remains with the author. Or representative of the...
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On Giving Up
On Giving Up I tweeted this the other day… “I’ve had 3 novels published. These are the ones I’ve not had published: The Brothers Mosteckski Zeitgeist...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 3
Chapter 2. The nurse’s soft Irish accent put me in mind of Ken Doherty the snooker player. All throughout my childhood, right up to my mid-teens, I...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 2
Chapter 1. Imagine one of those stories. The hero gets let off a hay truck at the beginning, he walks into a bar and he meets a married woman. She is...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir
Prologue: 1950 New Year They had done everything, diets in which they ate only raw vegetables, visited specialist doctors, timed their love making to...
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Good stuff Mark. Enjoyed it.
Posted on Wed, 11 Aug 2021
Good stuff Mark. Enjoyed it. I'd recommend Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith. A really great peeping Tom thriller.
Read full commentPosted in Danger Mouse
Really enjoyed this. And I'm
Posted on Sat, 10 Jul 2021
Really enjoyed this. And I'm not a football fan.
Read full commentPosted in Ingerland My Ingerland: A Life in Fifteen Football Games
Very good. And the article
Posted on Tue, 06 Jul 2021
Very good. And the article was interesting. I saw a similar project. Shipping containers I think. Turned into homes.
Read full commentPosted in Where The Streets Have No Blame
Brilliant! A lovely heart
Posted on Tue, 08 Jun 2021
Brilliant! A lovely heart-warming read. Happy Pride Month. (I'm told it's a whole month now!)
Read full commentPosted in Pride
It's a pleasure. I enjoyed it
Posted on Mon, 07 Jun 2021
It's a pleasure. I enjoyed it. And seeing all the lovely feedback you've had. I loved the picture too.
Read full commentPosted in In The Stillness Of Late Years
Congratulations. This is our
Posted on Mon, 07 Jun 2021
Congratulations. This is our Facebook And Twitter Pick of the Day! Please share.
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A nice description of what
Posted on Thu, 27 May 2021
A nice description of what the whole exam ordeal feels like
Read full commentPosted in The Exam
It's great Mark. But how old
Posted on Sun, 02 May 2021
It's great Mark. But how old is the narrator? I'd say some of the language is not a boy's voice.
"Ol’ Paddy Gannon – the former Caretaker, I should say – was the heartbeat of the estate"
"former caretaker" sounds too formal. "...
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Excellent. It's those little
Posted on Fri, 16 Apr 2021
Excellent. It's those little touches that make it - Lewis Carroll. The Dallas accent.
Read full commentPosted in Icecream
Very moving. Great Pick of
Posted on Wed, 14 Apr 2021
Very moving. Great Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in Setting Sons
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