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The Page Turner »
Birdsong and thunderstorms
Posted on 9:39am Wednesday 13th May 2009
I was rudely awoken by an insomniac coal tit at 3.40am this morning and took a moment to think about books.
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Patsy riding by
Posted on 11:29am Friday 8th May 2009
Imagine my surprise this morning as the Volvo dragged itself onto the A34 to see former child actress Patsy Kensit bedecking the side of a lorry.
Andrew Ffrench »
This Be The Laureate
Posted on 9:45am Tuesday 5th May 2009
By the time you read this, Carol Ann Duffy will probaby have penned her first poem as laureate.
The Page Turner »
Motion goes back to his roots at Radley
Posted on 4:13pm Wednesday 29th April 2009
After Poet Laureate Andrew Motion haunted my dreams the other night, I discovered that he is coming to Oxfordshire.
The Page Turner »
Goodbye to Ballard
Posted on 11:23am Monday 27th April 2009
I don't remember my dreams much these days but the other morning I woke up and recalled that I had been having a chat (in my dream) with the poet laureate Andrew Motion.
The Page Turner »
Bear necessities
Posted on 3:51pm Wednesday 22nd April 2009
I enjoyed a pleasant chat the other day with Ted Dewan, who writes children's books and lives in North Oxford.
The Page Turner »
Back in the bunker
Posted on 4:45pm Tuesday 14th April 2009
When I complained to one of my colleagues I was suffering a touch of Bank Holiday jetlag, he called me a tired old hack.
The Page Turner »
Tarka the 'Otter
Posted on 3:56pm Friday 3rd April 2009
When I told a colleague I was going for an Indian tonight he immediately replied: "Don't have a chicken tikka, have a chicken tarka - it's much 'otter."
The Page Turner »
Finding fiction difficult
Posted on 9:16am Wednesday 1st April 2009
It's quite frustrating when you find a good novel, start to read it, get hooked and then have to stop for some reason.
The Page Turner »
Paulo Coelho and the black roll neck
Posted on 4:13pm Friday 27th March 2009
Intrigued by Nick Hornby's selection of 40 titles for a special Waterstone's table, I picked out Stasiland by Anna Funder.
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