![]() ![]() I began to travel a great deal within the UK and around the world, for poetry tours and writing residences. I also completed two novels fortunately neither survives, and it was more than ten years before I wrote another novel.ĭuring this time I published several collections of poems, and wrote some of the short stories which were later collected in Love of Fat Men. I studied English at the University of York, and after graduation taught English as a foreign language in Finland.Īt around this time I began to write the poems which formed my first poetry collection, The Apple Fall, and to publish these in magazines. I began by listening to and learning by heart all kinds of rhymes and hymns and ballads, and then went on to make up my own poems, using the forms I’d heard. Poetry was very important to me from childhood. ![]() You also come to understand very early that stories hold quite different meanings for different listeners, and can be recast from many viewpoints. In a large family you hear a great many stories. ![]() My father was the eldest of twelve, and this extended family has no doubt had a strong influence on my life, as have my own children. I was born in December 1952, in Yorkshire, the second of four children. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I start the story as a hopeless romantic who’s half in love with his co-worker. In which the brooding, emotionally intelligent hero of Talia Hibbert’s witty, diverse romcom Take a Hint, Dani Brown drops by to recommend his favourite romance novels. It is an utter delight, and I cannot wait to review it next month! And be sure to pre-order Act Your Age, Eve Brown, the third novel in the Brown Sisters series. ![]() Read on for Zaf’s romance novel recommendations. Goddess Talia Hibbert was good enough to oblige! I was intrigued by the idea of what Zafir’s romance novel recommendation list might be. When I was first listening to the book a few months ago, I was struck by this and fell in love with the book even more. He listens and reads romance novels as a way to relax and cope with his anxiety (much the same way I started reading/listening to romance). For one, the anxiety rep was on point, and the hero, former Rugby star Zafir Ansari, is a romance reader. 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First of all, his beloved wife Rachel dies just after giving birth to their first child, and secondly, his new job of retrieving the souls of the newly dead, to keep them safe for their next host, has made death part of his daily routine. ![]() Letting your mind go down that avenue is to invite anxiety and all his buddies over for a long-term visit.īut in Christopher Moore’s latest novel, A Dirty Job, Charlie Asher really doesn’t have much choice in the matter. Not only is it depressing, but it could end up being self-defeating in a, “what’s the point of this, we’re all going to die in the end anyway,” sort of way. ![]() Not very many of us think about death on a daily basis. ![]() ![]() ![]() This ability has thrown him to the forefront of the genre and the dramatic story within The Alloy of Law shows off this skill to its very best. 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