Archive for August, 2006
En vacances
I’m sitting in a restaurant in the Swiss town of Bellinzona after around 10 days in Italy. It’s raining outside, as it has for significant parts of this holiday. Add to that a lot of driving, a daughter who needed rushing to ‘Ospidale’ to have stitches put in and you have what we might call [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2006 under Stuff.
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The ten basic Bible plots
OK, my latest book went off to the editor today. I’m very pleased with it, which is unusual for me, because normally by this stage I think everything in the world is awful and am taking a vow never to write again. Anyway, it’s going to be called The Big Story and it’s an attempt [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2006 under Stuff.
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Explorers Notes: The Bible
The advance copy of this has just been delivered. Should be in the shops soon. In the meantime, you can see some sample pages here.
Posted: August 4th, 2006 under Stuff.
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Lady in the Water
David Thomson in the Indy has given M Night Shyamalan — and every movie he’s made since Sixth Sense — a real kicking. Alright he’s got a silly name and he obviously has an ego the size of a planet, but I always find his films interesting and intelligent. (And I loved Unbreakable.) The catalyst [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2006 under Stuff.
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