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.
Both Moffat novels are available here
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Posted on Mon, 01 Nov 2021
so carefully. It' s some 40 years since I lived further north than Lincoln and even then that was only 10 years out of 37 , the rest of which I spent in Berlin whilst in the RAF and then 14 years in Spain after I left.
I shouldn't be...
Read full commentPosted in A Northern Song
Macabre,
Posted on Thu, 21 Oct 2021
moody and magnificent!
Read full commentPosted in What is Buried at Thresholds
Hi, Turlough.
Posted on Sat, 16 Oct 2021
Excellent work, it scans and the rhymes are un-forced. A great sense of place and character(s). I'm with you on your concerns about rhyme and how it can somehow infantilise (that's not quite the word I want) or undermine the seriousness of a...
Read full commentPosted in We Are Seacroft!
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
I always love it when our writers do something a little different. If we give ourselves lines to colour inside, we lose our creative edge. This disturbing account of true events is most deservedly our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please...
Read full commentPosted in Esther Cox
Loved the ending
Posted on Thu, 07 Oct 2021
I do sympathise to an extent, but swearing has been around a long time, in spite of the efforts of the censorious. The Puritans, the Roman Catholic Church's Flying Squad known as the Inquisition, the Victorian Age's Bowdler (and his sister) and...
Read full commentPosted in Tired as ...
This fine story is our Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Well done!
Read full commentPosted in With or Without You
Very, very funny.
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
In a cynical way, which is the best way, of course.
Can you say "held account", I think it's usually "held to account" that the people who say that sort of thing say, isn't it?
These are quite...
Read full commentPosted in The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 4
This is our Poem Of the Week for 20 August 2021
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
This sharply-observed snapshot of the hot Mediterranean summer in Naples is our Poem of the Week. Please share and/or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza
Duplicate posting.
Posted on Sun, 15 Aug 2021
Your poem posted twice, Luigi, unfortunately, the wrong one was deleted. Here are the comments on the one that was deleted, which, fortunately, I had saved beforehand....
Read full commentPosted in For Argument's Sake
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Wed, 11 Aug 2021
Quirky, bang up to date and tightly written, this is our Pick of the Day. Do please share and/or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Danger Mouse
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