Up for a Booker

I’ve just read that Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence is the bookie’s favourite to win the Man Booker prize this year. Strewth, hasn’t the old boy won enough prizes already, especially Booker-related ones? I think there should be some sort of rule, banning him for a good few years, at least. I’ve never seen [...]

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THE ALIENS ARE COMING!

  I’ve just been watching Richard & Judy and was shocked to hear that some bampots from Bebo and a television company are planning to use a radio telescope to beam hundreds of messages up (out?) to a planet 20 light-years from Earth.
Good publicity for the sponsors, no doubt, but — as one of Richard [...]

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The £100 for One Hundred Words Competition

 

Just a little reminder that the £100 for One Hundred Words competition is still running over at Larkin & Catcher. The competition is poetry-related but even if you’re not a budding poet it’s worth having a go, as the prize is £100 worth of items from the Larkin & Catcher store. I know I’m biased but [...]

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The Scottish Play — River City Style

I was really happy to hear that The Scottish Play (can’t write the name here — might bring bad luck to my blog — you understand, I’m sure) is coming to Edinburgh. I was just about to try to find a window in my hectic schedule, when I read that Laby MacB was to be [...]

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