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Paul Sutherland reads on BBC Radio
Listen to Paul Sutherland read ‘My granddaughter battles the sea
with a red plastic spade’ from his recent collection, Children’s Routes and Red Streamers.
Paul Sutherland reads, Amongst Children, from his latest collection.
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Writing is like breathing to me: Amanda’s story On Sunday Brunch with Kim Huynh
Facebook0Tweet0 Amanda Mcleod, on Sunday Brunch with Kim Huynh author Amanda McLeod has released her debut collection of flash fiction. Animal Behaviour explores what our furry, scaly and flying friends have to about us and includes a chapter entitled, “A Captive Octopus Will Eat it’s Own Arms if Bored or Stressed.” She joins Sunday Brunch’s Kim
Introduction to Trouble Crossing The Bridge
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Amanda McLeod reads ‘A Captive Octopus Will Eat Its Own Arms If Bored Or Stressed’
Facebook19Tweet0 Order it now https://youtu.be/zQhEJo9AmyU The playful prose in flash collection Animal Behaviour will make you smile, nod along with recognition, then unexpectedly punch you in the gut with superb final phrases (see A Captive Octopus Will Eat Its Own Arms If Bored or Stressed). McLeod’s use of animal facts as titles is a
Maria Straw Çinar reads from ‘Girl’
Girl is a coming of age, well crafted poetic masterpiece: Maria Straw-Cinar a talented contemporary novelist captures your heart from the first sentence to the last. We are all in this together – We shall all come through this together and this pain, at the loss of innocence too, will pass:
Diana Powell’ Awarded at the 2020 Royal Society of Authors ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award
Broad, distinctive, singular… to me, this is one of the joys of the short form – how it can encompass such variety around surprising individuality. It’s something I hope my collection ‘Trouble Crossing the Bridge’ shows, with an underlying theme, while consisting of a melting-pot of personalities, setting and plot.
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