They say that writing is a calling: I felt that calling as a young teen, but only in secret. Even at such a young age I was only too aware that my writing would not be taken seriously. It would not be encouraged and I would certainly be told to …
Hafsah Zamir-Khan is a zealous NaNo-er and reckons you should be one too. You’re asking if I have I ever wanted to write a novel? Is that a silly question? I guess there a very few people who haven’t fantasized about writing a novel and becoming an international bestselling …
When I picked up Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter, I was hoping to read something light and fun. I obviously don’t know Carter as well as I thought I did because this turned out to be the most disturbingly depressing book I’ve read in a long time. Sharp-eyed Marianne …
There’s two things everybody got to find out for theyselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing. And it’s different on every shore. And living… well, I just come back from burying …
This isn’t the first time I’ve watched Becoming Jane and I’m probably likely to watch it again several times in the future. It’s a typical Austenesque period drama: a tangled love story, a bit of social satire, some humour and wit, beautiful cinematography. The casting was good: Anne Hathaway and …
This is hardly going to be a credible review of ITV’s 2007 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, because not only have I never seen an adaptation of it before… I’ve also never read the novel itself. Hmmm. Northanger Abbey never gets as much attention as the rest of Austen’s …
