The fantastic old typewriter above is from the Hibernian Books bookshop. Hibernian Books (https://www.hibernianbooks.com) is a new and second-hand English language bookshop in Barcelona that I visited just before Christmas last year when my partner and son. I always look for a bookshop when I go anywhere, and it was lovely to visit this one!Continue reading “BRILLIANT BOOKS IN BARCELONA”
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Write What You Know? Or What You Imagine?
Authors are often told to ‘write about what you know’. Despite that sounding easy, it isn’t. Writing about your own life can seem dull, prosaic and boring. And if it’s not like that, if your life is either really exciting, fulfilling and wonderful, or actually quite awful, you probably don’t have time or a wishContinue reading “Write What You Know? Or What You Imagine?”
Agatha Christie – still the Queen of Crime
January is traditionally a time for new things, new ideas, new starts. It makes sense to do this as it follows closing the old year and moving on. Named after the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions and from the from the Latin word, ianua, which means ‘door’, this is the doorContinue reading “Agatha Christie – still the Queen of Crime”

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