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REVIEWS : Books, films, etc. What I thought & why you might like them.
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THE COURT OF VENUS by Bel Banta (BOOK REVIEW)
The plot wends as sinuously and as riven with poison as a snake, with many potential murderers for Bianca to unveil, all while trying to avoid the deadly games of a capricious king made cruel by unchallenged power. Roland is at once, foe, ally and maddening distraction and the question is always how far and…
REPORTS: Places I’ve been & events that I’ve seen.
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THE GALEON ANDALUCIA
The vessel is a unique replica of the Spanish galleons that, for three centuries, linked Andalusia and Spain with America and Asia… I have a fondness for maritime history and love visiting preserved museum ships and replicas of original ships. So when Facebook flagged up the Galeon Andalucia’s visit to relatively nearby Coleraine Harbour, I was definitely interested.
REVEALS: Interviews, writing, covers & other news.
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Interview with Stark Holborn – author of NINTH LIFE
I wouldn’t argue with anyone calling the Factus Sequence “space westerns”: my writing is undeniably influenced by the western genre, especially in the sense that I’m interested in interrogating and re-interpreting it. So, the books certainly have western elements, but they’ve also been labelled as space fantasy, space opera, cosmic horror…
RANTS: This is where I, or the books I read, get spicily political!
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Who should be banned from using social media?
This post is inspired by my reading of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier and it will – in part – be a review of that book. The book was first published in 2018 in the midst of Trump 1.0 but at a time before Musk took over…
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