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Category: Writing and Publishing
Classic Reviews – Free Book
For the last few days, I've been busy collecting together some of my earliest reviews into a little book, which I have now published on Amazon Kindle. The book is now available at: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 and other Amazon sites, and if you would like a copy, you'll be able to download it FREE from …
The Attic
A Short Story A whiff of something unexplained, alien, reaches me through the half-open trapdoor. I fumble for the light switch just inside on the floor, find it and flip it on. Nothing happens. The bulb has gone. Something crawls across my hand and I draw it back instinctively. The ladder creaks and wobbles underneath …
Real Neat Blog Award
I've been nominated! I'd like to thank Bronte's Page Turners for nominating me for a Real Neat Blog Award! I'm very flattered. The idea is for me to respond by answering a few questions and by nominating some other friends to do the same. Wow! These are the rules: RULES 1. Thank and link the …
Getting Away With Murder (3)
The Retired Cop My third (and last) fictional detective of the week is not exactly a 'classic', but he has been around for a few years now. John Rebus, creation of Scottish crime novelist Ian Rankin, was born in 1947 (we are told on Rankin's website). However, he did not make his appearance on the …
Getting Away With Murder (2)
The War Hero If I were into hard rock and heavy metal bands - which I'm not - I would have known that Career of Evil is the title of a track by the group Blue Öyster Cult. It is also the title of the latest crime novel by Robert Galbraith, a.k.a. JK Rowling. I …
Getting Away With Murder (1)
The Classic American As promised, I'm going to write this week about detective stories. The fictional detective and the typical fictional crime have changed a lot since back in the days ( I won't say how long ago) when at the age of about eleven I read my first Agatha Christie novel. Throughout my teens …
Happy New Year!
I do hope you all had a pleasant Christmas holiday! I haven't been thinking too much about blogging over the past few days, being pretty much occupied with launching my new book, It's a Fantasy World!, which is out on Amazon now. ** However, I have been reading some detective stories (three in all in …
Christmas with Mr Selfridge
A Story (In 1918, nine years after opening his famous London Oxford Street department store, Harry Gordon Selfridge commissioned an architect to design a spectacular tower to sit on top of the building ..... ) ^^^ ‘I don’t want to, Jake!’ Kylie’s lower lip trembled as she looked up her brother. Standing on the bottom …
In the Land of the Pharaohs
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari 'A woman who combines malice with intelligence and beauty is dangerous indeed - more dangerous still when she can add to this the power of a royal consort.' The Egyptian is a classic historical novel by Finnish writer Waltari and set in the Egypt of the 14th century BCE. The …
Magda Green Books 