James McConnachie

@j_mcconnachie

Non-fiction author; Sunday Times reviewer; editor of Society of Authors mag, The Author; Metro agony uncle. Happy he who, like Ulysses...

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2012.

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    22. sij

    "It is like finding a playing board without any counters or instructions" – I wrote a thing about mazes. via

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  2. Interesting take. But what's the alternative? Rewrite the Secret Garden to make Mary Indian-Indian instead of Anglo-Indian? Or just keep putting white people on covers?

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    prije 4 sata

    Writers - we need your help! are asking authors to add their name to an open letter that'll be sent to the Chancellor, calling for VAT on ebooks to be axed in line with the 0% tax on printed books. Find out more and join the campaign here:

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  4. sold out but still some waiting list chances so worth trying on the day...

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  5. 4. velj

    Wish would read this before they cut £1.76m from the Hampshire library service, and close a quarter of the county's libraries.

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  6. 3. velj

    This is an accelerating global reality. We are all impoverished by this.

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    29. sij

    Might be worth asking the South African authors and publishers their views, they see the bill as causing damages to local authors and consequently culture

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    3. velj

    He claims he was too busy to take a car or train.

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  9. 3. velj

    It's almost as if people don't feel books are enough in themselves.

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    16. sij

    ‘I didn’t just want to just mournfully highlight the persecution of the Deaf but I wanted to uplift all of us and honour the ways in which we persevere.’ on writing his award-winning book The Perseverance, out now from .

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  11. 3. velj

    Who else really cares about cutlery?

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    🍾Very excited to announce that Joanne Harris has been elected Chair of the SoA's Management Committee

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    3. velj

    Twitter, hold onto your (Victorian, straw, mountaineering) hats. I - along with and - will be announcing our new project this morning.....

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    3. velj

    map 5 - Muckle Flugga, Shetland (1902) '...the islets of Muckle Flugga, just a couple of hundred metres across, the most northerly of the British Isles. Beyond it there was only Out Stack, a stubby pestle of stone ground smooth by the perpetual Atlantic swell.'

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  15. 3. velj

    I love Max Hastings' urgent, colourful but thoughtful reviews. "Every society that engages in a war becomes morally compromised."

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    28. sij

    If I had ONE book from the first month of 2020's reviewing that I would want to jump up and down about, waving furiously at people, it would be this....

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    2. velj

    Nominations for Tortured Opening Sentence of the Week, now open.

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    2. velj

    The things that one-year-olds can do and the most sophisticated AI can’t... a highly informative review (with some below-the-line arguments against) from

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  20. 31. sij

    I am regretting the passing of two plurals this afternoon: "pence" and "cattle".

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  21. 31. sij

    A song for Brexit day, courtesy of the immortal Georges Brassens:

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