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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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The Book Swap Interview – Jonathan Lee

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It’s coming to something when quitting, an impulse that’s usually considered destructive, gets wheeled out as a man’s greatest achievement but leaving behind my safe, nicely paid job that I’d trained to do for years was difficult. I’m someone who likes an element of routine, of safety and familiarity, and backing myself to write a novel – when in truth I had no good reason to believe I could write a publishable one – required a leap of faith.

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The Ginkgo and the Sycamore

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The autumn leaf that’s falling through your mind
Has fallen through a million minds before,
And will fall on through countless millions more,
Like countless million others of its kind –

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The Good, the Bad and the Bond: A Fan’s Eye View of Pierce Brosnan

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Will Smith, the writer, comedian and star of The Thick of It, would frequently post pictures of Pierce Brosnan on Twitter, with captions such as the following, accompanying a shot of Brosnan painting in his garden with a hat slung behind his neck: You come home to find your new gardener painting your wife in the nude. Why, I asked him, is Pierce Brosnan so brilliant? “Because he’s like a walking Rolex ad,” he said. “Because of the seriousness with which he’ll put on a cufflink or pick up a shot glass. But also because he knows exactly how cool and ludicrous he is at the same time.”

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The Law and Lawyers – Robot Wars for Pedants

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It is my impression that making a career out of the intricacies of the law has less to do with wisdom and compassion and more to do with having a somewhat legalistic mindset. And it is my impression that to work in litigation in particular you have to be up for something of a scrap as well. Because litigation, when you look at it, is a form of Robot Wars for pedants.

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A Death: A Short Story

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What if Miss Catherine too harbours the terrible canker of consumption? Unseen, unfelt, unperceived. Waiting like a dog behind the door to savage my last hopes.

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The Search for the Great Albino

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Only hours after receiving the news, Bésancourt was levering himself into the saddle of his mule, whilst Lindenhof was buying new pack-animals with gold which he had carried secreted in the heel of his left boot ever since his days in Mexico.

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Elsewhere

And how while you’re doing what you’re doing now, and while you’re thinking what you’re thinking now there are whole other lives going on in which you are nothing, and whole other places where you are not, and which you will never see, from the home of the man you pass each morning on the way to work furthermost depths of empty space.

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Tamsyn Murray – The Interview

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Celery is what Satan feeds people in Hell and spiders – you mean you don’t know about them? They have enormous fangs and some of them carry guns and, basically, they’re trying to take over the world. I am very scared of them, even the small ones. In fact, often they’re the ones with the biggest teeth.

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Ray Robinson – The Interview

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I had a mushroom trip when I was in my early twenties and had a conversation with God while lying in a bath tub and He spoke to me through the curtains. I asked Him what I should do with my life and He, or rather the curtains, responded: Be a writer.

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