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Besotted by a book: Does where you read colour your feelings for a story?
By Natalie Conyer Does where you read a book affect your understanding of it? I ask because of a conversation I had with a friend. We were discussing books, and I said I was reading Olive Kitteridge. She said she’d read it but hadn’t enjoyed it. After a pause, she added that she’d been in Bali at the time, and perhaps that had affected her evaluation.I’m not sure about this. I know that context – place, time, state of mind – becomes part of the reading experience, and that it is forever entwined with what you’ve read. For example, years...
Book Peek: Kitty & Cadaver by Narrelle M Harris
Book Peek Narrelle M Harris Sneak Peek
A sneak book peek into Clan Destine Press' Kitty & Cadaver by Narrelle M Harris. Laszlo Kantor didn’t tell the five patrolling musicians that he thought they were preposterous, because he’d learned long ago to keep these opinions to himself, especially from preposterous people.The oddest at the moment was the Swede, Kurt, who had a tablet computer in one hand, open on an app that displayed a keyboard. He played it as he sang into the quiet buildings of this area of light industry. Water, fire, air and earth Let no evil cross this line Weave a web, protect this...
An Aussie Crime Writer Talks About The Harry The Horse Phase
By Stephen Johnson I’m past the halfway point on the latest Spotlight series manuscript. The body count stands at one, a minimalist victim rate compared to my first book, Tugga’s Mob. Fear not, more blood will be spilled before the final page. I’m edging to that climax, slowed in part by the knowledge it will face the Harry The Horse phase.Harry Lovett, aka Harry The Horse, departed for the chief sub’s bar behind the Pearly Gates in the early '80s, a few years after I joined the ABC as a cadet. It was a bygone era that Hollywood would portray...
The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology
Narrelle M Harris The Only One in the World
CLAN DESTINE PRESSThe Only One in the World – a Sherlock Holmes Anthology “Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.” ~ Sherlock Holmes to Dr John Watson, A Study in Scarlet What if Sherlock Holmes was Polish? What if he and/or John Watson were Indian or Irish or Australian or Japanese? How would their worlds look if one or both was from a completely different background? These are the questions Clan Destine Press asked writers from a wealth of...
Book Peek: Inside Tugga's Mob by Stephen Johnson
Book Peek Sneak Peek Stephen Johnson
A sneak book peek into Clan Destine Press' award-nominated Tugga's Mob by Stephen Johnson. June 1, 1986Day One: Judy Williams, from Waikato, New Zealand, is now officially in London. God, what a flight getting here: delays in Sydney and then Singapore, but we weren’t allowed to leave the airport. Such a long haul from Auckland to Heathrow, but it’s worth it to be in what I’ve always considered the coolest city in the world. There are millions of cars, people, and houses and the city noise is incredible; it’s close to how I imagined it would be. All those English...