Come to the Herring Girl launch party
Do come to the (literal) launch of my fourth novel – on a real boat! Cold bubbles, fishy smackerels, a (very) short reading and a return cruise to the mouth [...]
Coverology
(You will find a much longer and less solipsistic feature about book covers in the September issue of Mslexia) Here is what real North Shields herring girls looked like in 1898, [...]
US toddlers recall past lives
Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives, by Jim B Tucker (St Martin’s Press, 2013) Many documented cases of apparent reincarnation result from the ‘spontaneous recall’ [...]
Them or em?
A longer feature on on the challenges of conveying regional dialect without alienating readers appeared in the Guardian Review on 4 October, sparking 120 comments – and counting. You can add [...]