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Wednesday, 18th August 2010
The fourth annual Troubadour international poetry prize will be judged by Gwyneth Lewis & Maurice Riordan this year. Prizes: 1st £1000, 2nd £500, 3rd £250 & 20 prizes of £20 each plus a... (read more)
Monday, 2nd August 2010
An Evening with Rosie is a new monthly literary event at Woolfson & Tay, an independent book shop opening in Bermondsey in September, and I'm... (read more)
Thursday, 22nd July 2010
The Today programme this morning carried a very moving interview with John Dale, a soldier who has come back from Iraq with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Trauma is a word that’s... (read more)
Tuesday, 29th June 2010
It’s time I confessed to my secret vice. Some Monday evenings I go to the Troubadour in Earl’s Court to hear poetry readings run by Anne-Marie... (read more)
Sunday, 27th June 2010
Independent book shops are meat and drink to readers and writers like us and in September - great news! - a new one is opening in Bermondsey. ... (read more)
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'I looked over at her lying on the bed. At the elegant way her spine curved from the dress at her waist down to the divide of her beautiful arse.I decided to kiss her again. You won't bite me now, Helen, I thought. I'm going to kiss you, and you won't bite me again.'
Patrick Price-Johnson is on remand for the murder and intimate assault of a woman priest. His story begins with a mundane article for a local newspaper but when girlfriend Julia gets involved the stakes are raised. It's a journey that will drag him through fear, hypocrisy and despair to the darker side of love and faith and a sad question: is unrequited love the only love that lasts?
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'Very wicked and beautifully written' - Maureen Freely
'I doubt an ostensibly religious theme has ever been better served, or been simultaneously as scholarly, well-written, compelling, funny and, thank God, filthy. This atheist loved it.' - Martin Rowson
'A smart, surprising and eminently readable literary thriller' - Patrick Neate
'Intelligent, witty and sexy' - Caro Fraser (author of the Caper Court mysteries)
'Dazzling, wonderfully blasphemous and electric' - Mark Farley (author and manager of Waterstone's, Notting Hill)
'Lyrical, thoughtful, sensual and shot through with dark humour' - Imogen Robertson (author of Instruments of Darkness)
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See www.whatyouseeiswhatyouget.biz for more about Rosemary's ghost novel set in Greenwich and Blackheath (Wolfhound Press, 2005). |
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