Ewan
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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
My stories
Bronte's Inferno XXIX ("I Blame Cellini")
More of this. Image author's own.
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Play the B-Side
You know it. Image source wikipedia.org and used under fair use terms.
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A Letter to Untethered Books Ltd.
I am not Walter De La Mare's great-grandson and I don't live in Arizona. Not suitable for the sensitive or people working in publishing. Image is PD
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Not Much Cop
The barrel needs changing, it's not enough to claim there are just a few bad apples... image has no known copyright issues
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Bronte's Inferno XXVIII (All Of Ken Dodd's)
Surprised me too. Image copyright status under investigation.
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Posted on Tue, 13 Aug 2019
A comforting read, do click the link and listen to it being read extremely well by the author.
Read full commentWhy not share or retweet if you like it too?
Posted in "It was the Daisy...."
It's fairly recent
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
from a US radio advertising campaign from the 30's I think. It means this is going/has started well - possibly after repeated failed attempts. Popularised by Jack Benny and the like in comedy sketches thereafter.
Read full commentPosted in Cooking On Gas
This
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019
topical piece captures the futility of getting away from it all, whatever "it" is, it's in our baggage and that's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in removed for submission
Most enjoyable.
Posted on Thu, 07 Feb 2019
One or two things. Incognito is one word.
Kirk is almost exclusively used for Church in the Church of Scotland. Your priest(s) are Catholics, I presume, since they practise the rite of Exorcism.
I like the idea of the stories being...
Read full commentPosted in Adam Maxwell -Farquhar (Tale 2)
I wonder
Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019
what the playground chants are now... we used to parrot chants about Ho Chi Minh, with no clue where Vietnam was. This has that kind of hypnotic rhythm. Cleverly done.
best
Read full commentEwan
Posted in Don't count your chickens
Lots to Enjoy
Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2018
in this deceptively simple poem. I wonder if wouldn't work better without the first line? You show us all of that in the rest of the poem.
This is particularly beautiful
I turn once more to the laundry.
Read full commentIt is evening now...
Posted in love and laundry
It's worrying
Posted on Tue, 17 Jul 2018
looking back, sometimes. Old pals who took apprenticeships at 16 haven't lifted a tool in 30 years. Policemen some of them, or RAC men. The lucky few might do some shop-fitting though they're time-served carpenters and joiners. One lathe-turner...
Read full commentPosted in Distance
It's funny
Posted on Thu, 07 Jun 2018
if you'd asked me 10 years ago about the cathartic benefits of writing, I'd have laughed in your face. How wrong can one be? I suppose the point is it enables you (me, one etc.) to take your feelings outside and examine them, turning them over to...
Read full commentPosted in Here Are Things
This
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, it is a skilful two-parter which really drew this reader in.
Please read part two...
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 1)
Glad
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
you ended it here. I am a fan of unresolved fiction, especially in short stories. Skilful writing which drew me in.
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)
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