Richard Fleming
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Guernsey Literary Festival
Here is a link to the festival website, showing an excellent range of events. A great effort from Catriona Stares and her team, to get this up and running for the first time on the island. To see me here’s my timetable: Thursday 12 May 3:00-3:30 at the Festival Hub, reading from a Guernsey Double…
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My Guernsey Literary Festival schedule so far
On Friday 13th May (not at all worried about that date)I shall be leading a session on writing for children in a large tent erected in the Festival Hub. There is a school party of 60 booked on it from Le Murier School, where some of the children have complex needs. Again I’ll be out…
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Success
Of course the trick to having a successful year is to decide what success looks like on your terms. For me to be successful this year I have sought a happy medium between business and other creative projects. It’s simple: if I neglect one, I don’t eat, if I neglect the other my head explodes.…
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Back from the book Launch
Back from Guernsey now after a very successful book launch. Perhaps most enjoyably we managed to get on BBC Guernsey with Jenny Kendall-Tobias twice. She’s an excellent radio host and a lovely woman, and we did an entire two hour show with her. What we couldn’t have predicted was that she loved our work. The…
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Launching a Guernsey Double
Flying to Guernsey tomorrow, and while there will be launching A Guernsey Double. Really looking forward to this a great deal. Richard Fleming and I will be on BBC Radio Guernsey at 10:00am on the 1st July, interviewed I think by Jenny Kendall-Tobias. Then at 5:30pm we will do a launch reading at The Greenhouse,…
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A surfeit of locusts
The publication of A Guernsey Double is imminent. I have been experiencing a weird kind of anti-natal anxiety. I know Richard went through the same thing a few days ago. Not at all what I expected to feel. It’s a kind of vulnerability I suppose. I asked an old friend Mario Petrucci, who has had…
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A Guernsey Double
Delighted to say that my book with Richard Fleming has received an endorsement from the Guernsey Arts Commission. Additionally Edward Chaney, who is the literary executor of G.B.Edwards, who wrote the best novel about the Island ever, has agreed in principle to write a short introduction for us. Richard and I are now in the…
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BBC Guernsey
Just a quick update. Will be in Guernsey next week and am due to crop up on the Jim Cathcart show on BBC Guernsey 27/01/10 after 11.10am, talking with my pal Richard Fleming about the Anthology of Guernsey and more.
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Being Brian Eno
A few years ago I read a book by Brian Eno called A Year with Swollen Appendices. This made a big impact on me. Not only do I think he is an interesting man, who makes amazing music, and has a thoughtful approach to culture. He also has fascinating friends, and I envy his ability…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 