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Giant statue of Kusama, a woman wearing a long white spotted dress and red wig, painitng spots on the outside of Harrods department store.

Yuyoi Kusama collaboration

What a joyful evening visiting the Kusama / Louis Vuitton collaboration at London’s Harrods with my astute daughter, whose lightning reflexes secured our timed tickets.

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Goldsmith University

University recommends Rockstar Ending

Goldsmiths University has included Rockstar Ending on the reading for its Ethical Computing course. I did my postgraduate degree on the digital environment there in 2017. Those studies led me

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Sarah Sharman, N A Rossi and Daniel Confino

I made the grown-ups cry

My final author engagement of 2022 was an interview with the ‘Look Mum, No Hands!’ podcast. I didn’t intend to make Sarah Sharman and Daniel

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The three books from the Rockstar Ending series garnished for Xmas

Seasonal chillers

It is almost three years since I took my first tentative steps to becoming a published author of near-future fiction. I’m still learning a lot.

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Lisa Nandy on the platform for the Orwell Memorial Lecture Dec 2022

They’ll Never Allow It

On Tuesday this week, I asked a question to Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, after she gave the annual Orwell

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Rockstar Ending books, champagne, chips, pen

Share the book club buzz

October has already delivered another fun first in my author career. A local book club had read Rockstar Ending, the first novel in my dystopian

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1800s Wigan library with screen announcing Orwell commemorative event

My Wigan Orwell Weekend

We recently celebrated the 85th anniversary of George Orwell’s ground-breaking piece of social journalism, The Road to Wigan Pier.  He described the shocking living conditions

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You Must Write It

Four years ago this Toni Morrison quote changed my life: If there’s a book you want to read, and it hasn’t been written yet, then

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laptop, headphones and rockstar ending books

Radio roundup

Appearing on numerous BBC radio stations over the past month seemed the most pandemic-friendly way to get the word out about the launch of Rockaway, the second book

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road sign saying ignorance

Which media do you trust?

What is your go-to source for news and information? The mainstream media is subject to criticism, some of it justified. However, highly trained investigative reporters

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Rockaway and nal polish in matching reds and blues

Goody goody

I’ve subliminally programmed myself to buy nail polish in colours that match the Rockaway book cover. I didn’t realise until they arrived. This reminded me

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Alan Moore portrait

Imagination is Limitless

Alan Moore and Brian Catling on Imagination – Review of How To Academy event, 17th January 2022 – Monday’s online discussion from the How to

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Rockaway cover

Rockaway is out

The third book in my dystopian the Rockstar Ending series, Rockaway is published at last! Huge thanks are due to the friends who have kept

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xmasbooks

Signed books for Christmas

Here’s a thought-provoking  present for the reader in your life.  Highly original, macabre and very funny – Richard Blair Speculative fiction at its best, thrilling

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N A Rossi jumping

I’m Jumping for Joy!

Do you think they might ban me? I just celebrated seeing the cover design for ‘Rockaway’, the third novel in my chillingly plausible dystopian series,

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