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Winchester 2010

Posted on 10 July, 2010 by Susan K Franklin

Winchester 2010 with Plenary Speaker Sir Terry Pratchett OBE This year the Winchester Writers’ Conference was celebrating 30 years of inspiring, encouraging and educating aspiring authors. The conference ran over three days. During this time workshops, seminars, networking, midnight reads … Continue reading →

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HHGTTG 6: Mostly pointless?

Posted on 21 August, 2009 by Ian Cundell

So the first review of the new, post-Douglas Adams, entry to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, written by Eoin Colfer, has arrived, and a rather odd thing it is too – the review that is. It’s a review … Continue reading →

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Say what?

Posted on 13 August, 2009 by Julie Mayhew

I’ve just returned from a trip to Edinburgh for the opening weekend of the Fringe Festival. I was there researching the setting for my next novel but, of course, I squeezed in as many shows as possible. Who wouldn’t? It … Continue reading →

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What Stirs the Spring

Posted on 5 April, 2009 by CherylA

To the intimate Drill Hall Theatre off Tottenham Court Road on Friday April 3 to see Miles Barden (left) and Joshua Dickinson (right) perform What Stirs the Spring. This was an evening of mystery and fear with half of the … Continue reading →

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A Winter’s Chill

Posted on 30 December, 2008 by Oscar Windsor-Smith

It was personal. Of course, it had to be. What could be more intimate than homicide? Sex, perhaps? But on a raw December night at that altitude murder seemed somehow more– fitting. Death, then, and it was close. In Hampstead’s … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Newcon 4

Posted on 15 October, 2008 by Toby Frost

Last weekend – the 11th and 12th of September, I attended my first science-fiction convention: Newcon 4 in Northampton’s Fishmarket gallery. Guest of honour was Iain M. Banks, and other headliners were writers Ken MacLeod, Storm Constantine and Paul Cornell, … Continue reading →

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Imran rides again

Posted on 2 September, 2008 by Ian Cundell

If you haven’t already done so, pop over to Imran Ahmad’s blog and have a shufti the tale of his latest trip to Edinburgh. As ever with Imran, it’s a belter.

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Kick ‘Em When They’re Down

Posted on 10 July, 2008 by Jon Pinnock

I was out on Tuesday night at the very wonderful Liars’ League – an event which I will almost certainly write about at another time. So I missed the opening episode of BBC’s new flagship drama series, Bonekickers. Fortunately I remembered … Continue reading →

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When science and satire meet

Posted on 28 June, 2008 by Ian Cundell

Or when creationist nutjobs bite off more than they can chew, courtesy of Ben “Gruaniad’s Bad Science column” Goldacre’s blog..

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And so it begins.

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by Ian Cundell

The Cult of Smith is rising 

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