Meanwhile, increasingly everything is being politicised and dragged into the gravity of our culture war. Only this week greeting card firm Paperchase was in the news after they werebullied by left-wing activists into a grovelling public apology for having dared to advertise in the Daily Mail, ...
No, this one is a stand alone. And given it’s my first fantasy, I won’t even be doing my Easter egg trick that I have for my contemporary novels, where a main character from another mention sails through in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo. These guys exist on their own, and...
In my case, we didn’t do much maths, thankfully, but I learnt lots of poetry, mainly, I think, the poets my stepmother had ‘done’ at school in the thirties. These includedSir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Browning, Wordsworth and chunks of Longfellow’s Hiawatha. She was hot on spelling ...
However, I don’t find those ‘s0-called’ drama elements interesting. I am not that engaged to the story development and the worst thing is that the film took almost three hours long. For me, that is a bit too long and I find it quite difficult to sit through to this kind of movi...