Julie-Ann Corrigan

An interview – with debut novelist Laura Wilkinson

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 BloodMining – a powerful but gentle tale of our near future BloodMining is Laura Wilkinson’s first novel.  Many writers are well into their second, third or even fourth before they find either an agent or a publisher.   BloodMining won Bridge House Publishing’s 2010 novel competition, the prize being publication.  It is a well-deserved winner, a [...]

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A Most Cool Author – An Interview With R.J. Ellory

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Ellory admits to probably not reading enough in recent years – but we’ll forgive him – a four-hundred page novel every twelve months not to mention the book tours, work in local libraries, replying religiously to e-mails from fans (and aspiring writers…!), some charity work and of course a family – does exonerate him.

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A Very Fantastic Journey: An Open Mic Night At The Hay Literary Festival 2011

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He gave me his card. Yes, it really was like a scene in a movie, ‘I’ll find you an agent…you really are the find of the night.’

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A Slice of Paradise – “Doing Christmas” as The Family Mum

My husband re-named me the ‘Tesco Terminator,’ as he watched me trawling the supermarket aisles like the fictional cyborg character

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Growing Up With Madonna

In the early Eighties though, for teenagers like me the name evoked a paradoxical naughtiness; simply because of the imagery which it conjured up and the personality who had laid claim to it. Madonna stormed through the charts as unexpectedly as her persona exploded through my consciousness.

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