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Ewan Lawrie

The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here

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A Quantum Of Solace

Quantum computing will change everything ... Probably. Photograph taken by Lars Plougmann posted on Flicker.com licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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Chelsea Floor Show

What's it about? I've no idea. Make up your own meaning, why don't you? :-D image is PD
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Noir-sery Rhyme

Like most things it'll have been done before. Best imagined as being read by Tom Waits. image made at canva.com
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A Toe Dipped In the Stream of Self-Consciousness

Good luck with this one. Image made by me at Canva.com
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Letters

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390 of my comments have received 424 Great Feedback votes

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I am

Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020

speechless. Or at least written-wordless. This bears many more than several readings.

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Posted in At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly

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There will be

Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2020

...but as you know I'm writing Moffat III at the moment (12,000 words and counting). I always have a vanity project going, whilst I'm writing a novel. It helps to dive off into something else completely unrelated. Usually, The Picture Ranch or...

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Posted in Powerhousing II

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Ah well,

Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2019

don't we know? "This is John, he...we used to know each other." Joan is about 19, John has been away for 20 years.
Yes, I know people don't like holes, but I do like clues, rather than telling everything.
Anyway, glad you liked it...

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Posted in A Polka Dot Dress

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One thing you will

Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017

find by doing this, is that your description in any prose you do write will be tighter, more compact, more effective, it's something I was told would happen if I wrote more poetry. I'm not completely sure it has for me, but it will for you....

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Posted in Tail-end

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It's the mothballs

Posted on Tue, 10 Jan 2017

I remember, and the faint smell of Lion pee and Turkish Delight.... hahaha. I do not know anyone who has never explored their parents' wardrobe. When I was 8, my dad's wardrobe had hundreds of football programmes from the 40's and 50's; Rangers...

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Posted in Grimms5

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Congratulations, This is our Pick of the Day, 14th April 2025

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 this clever teaser for Phil's imminent release of 'Dead Reckoning' a humourous novel about the adventures of a pair of undertakers, is well worth a read and whets the appetite for his books appearance.

Do please share if you like this...

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Posted in Archibald's Note

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Ha, Very fine.

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 I did something similar (although perhaps not so ventriloquistically adroit) with The Moffat Trilogy. One thing this kind of thing does do is make you look at your work differently.

Anyway, as I say, skillfully done.

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Posted in Archibald's Note

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I really do like this, T.O.

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 However, I am particularly glad you didn't post an image with it.

E.

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Posted in The planet of anal probes

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Perhaps not as outrageously ridiculous

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 as previous episodes, but very good all the same.

I'm not entirely sure "relent" is the word you want at line 12

OED does have at 2†b."to yield, give way; to give up a previous determination or obstinacy" which does fit." which...

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Posted in Boris and the Art of the Deal

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Ho-Ha-Heh, Hertha Beh-Ess-Tseh!

Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2025

 I had a couple of military pals in Berlin, who followed Hertha, who - in those days - had quite a hooligan set-up. There were some Kneipen that were only for Herta fans in Spandau just a stop or two down the U-Bahn from Wilmersdorf,where the...

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