I posted yesterday’s blog on the Red Room website and got an interesting response from the author Rosy Cole. Rosy took me to task over my use of the term ‘homogenisation of culture’. In her comment, she drew attention to the diversity that in fact exists in Britain today: “Scratch the surface and you uncover …
It’s the same every time. Blank screen. Blank mind. Blank except for one thought: I don’t know how to do this. But the feeling is particularly strong this time. I’m starting something completely new. Not just a new book in an existing series. It’s going to be a completely different kind of book, too, from …
Many thanks to the wonderful Jamie Mason for asking me back on the writing website AuthorScoop for another five minute interview. A delight, as ever.
A friend drew my attention to this article in the Times, about a new metro station in Moscow named after Fyodor Dostoevsky. However, it seems that the opening of the station has had to be delayed because it has been decided that the murals decorating the platforms, which are based on scenes from Dostoevsky’s books, …