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A Little Less Conversation Please!
Edward Hopper’s Room in New York… And there is a link to this week’s Short Story Sunday, I promise… Just read on… It’s Sunday again (it does seem to come round very quickly), and that means it’s time for another short story, so out of my wonderful Persephone anthology comes Here We Are, by Dorothy…
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Crime Ration with Maigret
I’m not the greatest fan of crime fiction – I don’t like descriptions of blood and gore – but I do like the Maigretbooks, and you don’t often see them around, so I was delighted to pick up three in the last couple of weeks. First there was Maigret and the Idle burglar, which I…
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Short Story Sunday: The Music Box
The Music Box, by Malachi Whitaker, reminded me of DH Lawrence – the setting, that is, not the style. Short story writer Malachi Whitaker. Here we have a sensitive woman and her timid young son living in a grim, bleak, northern mill town, married to a joyless man who works in the quarry and is…
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