London Book Fair 2025

The London Book Fair 2025 #1

January 29, 2025 in Events, London Book Fair

It’s coming up to that time of year again: the London Book Fair.

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My reviews published in Teach Secondary magazine in 2024

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This pdf contains the reviews of mine that were published in Teach Secondary magazine in 2024.

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Compare and contrast: Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature

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Here are two versions of the same review: the one I submitted to Teach Secondary magazine, and the edited one they published.

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Compare and contrast: Hitler’s People – The Faces of the Third Reich

Bookshelf, Reviews

Here are two versions of the same review: the one I submitted to Teach Secondary magazine, and the edited one they published.

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Compare and contrast: Review of How to Teach Literature – and Still Love Reading

Bookshelf, Reviews

Here are two versions of the same review: the one I submitted to Teach Secondary magazine, and the edited one they published.

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Compare and contrast: Review of Dickens: The Funny Bits

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Here are two versions of the same review: the one I submitted to Teach Secondary magazine, and the edited one they published.

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Collection, Creative Writing, Bookshelf, Reviews

Compare and contrast: Picture Perfect

Collection, Creative Writing, Bookshelf, Reviews

As indicated by the title, the first thing to know about this anthology is that it comprises both poetry and prose, rather than one or the other. Many of the pieces are quite unusual...

Collection, Creative Writing, Bookshelf, Reviews

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Compare and contrast: Nuts and bolts

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It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.

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Compare and contrast: Love Triangle

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Like, I suspect, many people, I have never knowingly come across an isosceles triangle in my life, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. However...

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Bookshelf, Journalism, Language, Reference, Bad writing, Back Catalogue, Reviews

Review: Waterhouse on newspaper style

Bookshelf, Journalism, Language, Reference, Bad writing, Back Catalogue, Reviews

This book may be thirty years old, but its advice is still pertinent. If you want to have a blitz or crackdown against, or shake-up of, bad writing (all examples of 'tabloidese'), then this is the book for you.

Bookshelf, Journalism, Language, Reference, Bad writing, Back Catalogue, Reviews

Bookshelf, Reflections

Can writers learn from computer programmers?

Bookshelf, Reflections

Introducing and applying Conway's Law, Gresham's Law and the sunken cost fallacy to the practice of writing.

Bookshelf, Reflections