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I live with my husband and two cats in a cottage in Norfolk, close to the Broads and the coast. I've been writing almost every day since 2014, when I retired from teaching English, drama and media studies at a Norfolk high school, where I was also editor of the school magazine. I continue to work as a GCSE moderator/examiner and am an active volunteer at two local primary schools, listening to children read, and at local libraries, leading Bounce and Rhyme sessions for parents, babies and toddlers.

I started writing poetry as a teenager, as well as the occasional short story, but my retirement gave me the opportunity to develop an old idea for a children’s story into my first (unpublished) novel, while studying on the first of two creative ...more

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The Solent Murder Mysteries Books 1–3 (DI Andy Horton #1-3)

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I really struggled to finish this book, which was so repetitive and far too long. The characters were awful, and I had no sympathy with Christine. I won't be reading any more Martina Cole books. ...more
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Stunning This book is chilling and full of tension and suspense. I couldn't put it down and read it in a day. Rosamund Lupton is a fabulous writer, who had me caring deeply about the characters she created, but also had me frightened for them. But the ...more
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Beautifully written I love that this book was set in the 1980s, just after I left Ireland, it all felt so familiar. The characters were well-drawn, and the story believable. I read it in one sitting.
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A delightful and interesting book. I love the distinct voices of William G and Neaera H, and the way the characters came together. I read it in one sitting!
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This morning I finished The Belladonna Maze by Sinéad Crowley, which I have been reading stave by stave with The Pigeonhole. I love a good ghost story and this one was set in a big house in Ireland, which was very promising. However, somewhere along ...more
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Kim Russell rated a book liked it The Adventure of the Dancing Men - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (Arthur Conan Doyle Masterpiece Collection) by Arthur Conan Doyle	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
What I liked most about this story was that it was set not far from where I live. I used to volunteer at the school at East Ruston. The story itself was a little far-fetched, but still enjoyable if you like Sherlock Holmes.
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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