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Goodbye Isla da Fuzeta
Tiffany Murray's writing shack in southern Portugal was almost washed away in the storms last weekend.
Tiffany Murray's Blog
15:58:00 17/02/10
Is There Anybody Out There ?
The novelist Tiffany Murray on the music that inspired her second novel Diamond Star Halo, the music she couldn't listen to while she was writing it and the music that has been inspired by the book.
Tiffany Murray's Blog
16:39:00 10/02/10
My Brilliant Career
Anouchka Grose on her varied career, as a jeweller, a lampshade maker, a guitarist in a band with Terry Hall and finally, as a psychoanalyst.
Anouchka Grose's Blog
16:00:00 25/01/10
Why I Wrote A Silly Love Book
Anouchka Grose, psychoanalyst and author, on the wisdom and folly of writing a book about love.
Anouchka Grose's Blog
15:30:00 20/01/10
The First Time
Tiffany Murray on the first reading of her new novel, Diamond Star Halo at the Hay Winter Festival. Anyone attending the event in Glam Rock costume was admitted free of charge.
Tiffany Murray's Blog
10:10:00 08/01/10
Why I Love Snow
Charlie English, author of The Snow Tourist, on the ability of snow to transform the mundane into the magical.
Charlie English's blog
00:00:00 31/12/09
Effing fairy cakes
Pete Silverton, author of Filthy English, on his launch party in the Sir Richard Steele, complete with effing fairy cakes.
On Swearing
16:00:00 23/11/09
Blindfolds as an icebreaker
Ed Hollis uses an usual method to break the ice with his second year architecture students.
Ed Hollis' Blog
19:01:00 22/11/09
Bricking It
Peter Silverton, author of Filthy English, on his appearance at the Brickhouse, alongside a female tantric sexpert. He confesses to feeling like a maiden aunt.
On Swearing
18:50:00 11/11/09
Communist keepsakes
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds Alex Peake-Tomkinson of some shocking lacunae in her knowledge of the Communist bloc.
Web Mistress
09:30:00 09/11/09
