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
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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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Bronte's Inferno XXVII (Perhaps I Shouldn't Have)
Whatever next? (I don't know either...) Image is from Wiki-commons.
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2nd
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
person narration is notoriously difficult to pull off, but you've managed it well. What I like so much about what you do is the vast swathes of subtext, the gaps between the lines that are so tempting to fill and that we are unlikely to get wrong...
Read full commentPosted in The Oil Refinery
You
Posted on Thu, 14 Sep 2017
missed the "Flight" from Flight Lieutenant: No Lieutenants since the RFC became the RAF in 1918,
Best, Ewan, (former Flight Sergeant, No. 51 Sqn)
Read full commentPosted in The Second World War: PART 4 - Andrew MacDonald - Sagan (1943)
This
Posted on Tue, 14 May 2013
is poetry. This is life.
This is sharp and it cuts like a knife.
Lovely, lovely poetry. Hope we hear more from Shoe sometime soon.
Read full commentPosted in Viscosity
I
Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017
like to think I am capable of separating the art from the artist.
Years and years ago I did A101 Arts Foundation course with the OU (it would have been about '83). At summer school in Hounslow (!) we trashed a whole afternoon with the...
Read full commentPosted in Evening Walk in a Seaside Town
What
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
a pleasure it was to have known a little about your father's father in your father's own words. There is so little to connect us goyim with the terrible things done in those dark days. Every time a survivor goes, another thread is severed....
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
I read quite a few
Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2017
eye-witness accounts of the evacuation. One of them had this:
Read full comment"the angry hornet noise of dive bombers." So I do not take all the credit for that turn of phrase.
Many of these eye-witness reports were full of such observations, very...
Posted in No Armada
Most enjoyable.
Posted on Mon, 17 Jul 2017
Very descriptive, some nice alliteration and imagery. I particularly liked your neologism, 'coolcurled'.
You have a typo, lizard has one 'Z'.
Do you really need to put 'ivy' at the end? A suitable accompanying...
Read full commentPosted in a sort of green
Really liked this.
Posted on Thu, 13 Jul 2017
You might want to think about the "I"'s lining the page like telegraph poles. It often happens with a first person narrator, I've done it myself. Once it's pointed out you always see it.
Utterly, utterly believable. I hope it's fiction,...
Read full commentPosted in What happens near Rome
This is really good.
Posted on Fri, 30 Jun 2017
The voice as has been mentioned is really good. I like how much subtext there is. How much we're left to fill in for ourselves about your narrator.
Read full commentA couple of tiny things. Plural of taxi is taxis, there is an archaic form taxies, but it's...
Posted in Earth. Live. Neutral.
This rich
Posted on Sun, 18 Jun 2017
and textured riot of colour and blooms reminded me of Christina Rossetti's work. It is a deserved Facebook/Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too_
Read full commentPosted in The Ghost Queen.
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