THANK YOU Joanna Hallin, The Madras Courier and all of you out there who have written such amazing reviews of Brushstrokes in Time on Amazon,Goodreads in the press etc
http://www.johannahallin.com/review-brushstrokes-time/
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02, 2018
Michael Rosen and today’s episode of Endeavour!
Interesting episode of Endeavour on ITV tonight. It was set against real events in Oxford. I had the privilege of ‘casting away the former children’s laureate Michael Rosen and he told me this story…. In 1969, he became a graduate
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02, 2018
Freelancers made redundant
Sylvia Vetta Gannet are no longer using freelance contributors so my career as a feature writer and exhibition reviewer has come to an end. Gannet always had good value from me because they syndicated lots of my features. You can
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02, 2018
LIonel Shriver talks wisdom in today’s Guardian
Alison Flood books/2018/feb/22/lionel-shriver-says-politically-correct-censorship-is-damaging-fiction THANK YOU Lionel Shriver! What wisdom! And thank you Alison Flood and the Guardian for publishing this feature In 2016 Claret Press published my novel Brushstrokes in Time which is mostly set in China. It was turned into an audio
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12, 2017
An emotional experience launching Poems in an Exhibition
Dwina Gibb and I were on Radio Oxford talking Poems in an Exhibition. Click on the link to hear Dwina read My Songbird has Flown: Dwina Gibb - My Songbird Has Flown Dwina and I on Radio Oxford: The launch
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11, 2017
Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain opens this week (Nov 7) at the Ashmolean.
Qu Leilei is a founder of the Stars Art Movement. When he told me his story it inspired me to write Brushstrokes in Time. Recording the trial of democracy leader Wei Jingsheng (1979) catapulted his life into nightmare. (again) He
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10, 2017
Poems in an Exhibition : An accidental but delightful celebration of diversity in aid of Standing Voice.
Oxfordfolio are sending ‘Poems in an Exhibition’ to the printers today. Hatred of the ‘other’ has been rearing its ugly head everywhere. ‘Poems in an Exhibition’ has accidentally become a celebration of diversity. The backgrounds of the poets and artists
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09, 2017
Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain
Coming Soon to the Ashmolean. Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain (7 Nov 2017 to 15 Apr 2018.) This exhibition and the accompanying book should establish his reputation as a great artist . Reviewing Everyone’s Life is an Epic in
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09, 2017
Nostalgia for Empire !
Because of the rise in empire nostalgia, knowing the truth about the brutality of empire is important. Our schools don’t teach empire and most Brits know little and what they do know is coloured by ideas of benevolent patriarchy. In
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09, 2017
Let’s stop labelling people!
India's lost emperor Ashoka set about governing India by moral force alone! He renounced violence including the death penalty and this was Before Christ ! Ashoka turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion but his name was cleansed