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Book Review: Sunburn – The unofficial history of the Sun newspaper in 99 headlines by James Felton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I can’t remember now how I came across James Felton originally. I think it was finding his book ’52 Times Britain was a Bellend’, which I loved, reviewed, and then found him on Twitter. Since then, I’ve just come to think of Felton as being one of the best […]
Book Review: Dishoom – From Bombay with Love by Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar & Naved Nasir
My rating: 5 of 5 starsSeveral years ago, a friend from the blogging world introduced me to Dishoom in Shoreditch. It was an instant love affair (with the place, not the friend) and now, whenever I’m in London, I always make sure I go there for lunch or, better still, breakfast. And if you’re ever […]
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Category Archives: story
Writing like Dan Brown and Douglas Adams
I had some fun last week when, through another blogger, I discovered yet another writing website. I’m beginning to feel like I’m collecting these sites – often packed with lots of helpful information – and spend more time reading about writing … Continue reading
A Christmas Carol? Ghostly Tales for the Season – Part III
A Cynical ‘spirit’ I hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s post and that some of you learned a little bit about Bangla life and culture in the process. Today we finally reach the incident which sparked off this whole mini-series in … Continue reading
A Christmas Carol? Ghostly Tales for the Season – Part I
Would you ever ask to be deliberately dropped off, at midnight, on a long dark deserted road, where you knew a woman had been murdered along with her lover long ago and reportedly still haunts the place? Would you call … Continue reading
Never Trust Doctors – part III
Here is the final part to my tale of woe. It’s not short so, get a hot drink, find a comfy chair, mentally prepare yourself for the horror story that is to unfold. For the deeply nervous among you, I’ll … Continue reading
Never Trust Doctors – part II
Today is the second instalment of this epic tale. If you missed the first one read it now here. Have a heart The next day we went back to the LAMB hospital for more tests including another echo. The stomach … Continue reading