We all know what a disgrace I am, and I’m sure if I’d had the patience to wait until late Thursday morning, I’d have been furnished with the full results for my local book awards. Bu… more →
Bookwitchwrote 1 week ago: In his latest book, Cosmic, author Frank Cottrell Boyce created a main character, Liam, who is in fa … more →
wrote 1 month ago: We all know what a disgrace I am, and I’m sure if I’d had the patience to wait until lat … more →
wrote 1 month ago: This book is one of my all time faves so you can imagine how happy I was when I heard it was going t … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Here is a concluding speech from the BBC movie “God on Trial” where a Rabbi finally spea … more →
wrote 5 months ago: [A loose translation from an article in Le Figaro by Bruno Corty, Françoise Dargent, Thierry Clermon … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Tony Wilson tours with the Happy Mondays in "24 Hour Party People". (Michael Winterbottom, … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Just imagine! There I was in a classroom sitting next to Linda Newbery, with Frank Cottrell Boyce an … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Thank heavens for people like Alan Gibbons. Someone who not only thinks that things are wrong, but w … more →
wrote 6 months ago: As I usually seem to do, I ran into Fiona Dunbar in the Ladies at the start of the proceedings of th … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Yippee! At last a shortlist where the lazy witch has read every single book! Very nice list, very ni … more →
wrote 9 months ago: I have become a space junkie. It all began about 18 months ago when I read the light, accessible and … more →
wrote 9 months ago: I’ve always been interested in stories about technique – how stories work – and th … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Millions is a really good book. Just like the other two children’s novels by Frank Cottrell Bo … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Been reading a couple of books recently- Story and Character:Interviews with British Screenwriters. … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Young Tristram Shandy taking a pre-sash-assisted circumcision slash in the Michael Winterbottom/Fran … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Three out of four is pretty good going, even for a bookwitch. I didn’t foresee Cosmic on the s … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Last night BBC2 screened God on Trial, a new TV play by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is the story of a g … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Only knowing the Frank Cottrell Boyce of the funny children’s books, the play on BBC2 on Wedne … more →