CrimeFest Part Deux: Book-buying, Panelisms, and Longlists
Twenty-seven days after CrimeFest ended it’s still buzzing round my head for three very good reasons. The first is that I walked away...
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antonydunford
- May 17
- 3 min
Reacher is in Good Hands
What a weekend! I have been to CrimeFest in Bristol twice before, in 2018 and 2019. I was booked to go in 2020 but the pandemic...
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antonydunford
- May 5
- 4 min
Reading, Writing, and Festival Frenzy
Ho, ho, ho! Tis the season to merry! By which I mean, we’ve entered the five months of the year in which a flurry of the UK’s Crime...
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antonydunford
- Apr 7
- 4 min
That Reacher Guy - a day of inspiration with Lee Child
Many of you will know the story… a man called Jim Grant is made redundant from Granada TV in the mid-1990s. He’s an avid reader, reading...
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antonydunford
- Jul 16, 2021
- 4 min
Finding my inner-Attenborough
A few months ago, a series of probably unconnected events changed the way we see our garden. Someone tried to break into the shed....
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antonydunford
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
The Promotion Race
My OH cut her fringe the other day. She put the severed hair into a plant pot in the garden and we pointed one of the cameras at it....
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antonydunford
- Apr 8, 2021
- 3 min
So big, you cannot see it
The late, great Terry Pratchett and his writing conspirator Neil Gaiman wrote a line in Good Omens that went something along the lines of...
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antonydunford
- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
The Mouse
I’ve been lax in my blogging, which in itself is a phrase ripe with the succulence of disturbing imagery. But I digress. One of the...
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antonydunford
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
Publication
26th January 2021 arrived. On that day Hunted was published. My first novel. The fulfilment of an ambition held for more than half a...
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antonydunford
- Aug 30, 2020
- 2 min
Up Close
I reached for behind her ears. It was so soft, something like a cross between velvet and satin.
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antonydunford
- Aug 26, 2020
- 3 min
Don't Panic!
I’d seen rhinos in zoos. Big, exotic, cows, really. Just armoured and with horns. That their species has gone had a big effect on me.
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