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'The Fleetwood Half-Orphan Asylum' – a novel, here, now
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Oct 27, 2025
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‘1599’ and all that – the particular and the universal
The critical success of the film and of Maggie O’Farrell's novel, Hamnet, was the spur.
Mar 6
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Creating, imagining, remembering – writing?
As part of a program to see what might happen when writers interact with people with dementia, organized by the Bournemouth Writing Festival in England…
Feb 27
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Don Nordberg
What's a PhD in creative writing? What knowledge does it create?
In this first-person account of studying creative writing, published in the academic journal New Writing, I explore some of the issues that I try to…
Feb 6
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‘Hamnet’ and … Shh … don’t mention it! Attend to what’s important
Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel has made it to the big screen and to winning Golden Globe awards.
Jan 30
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Don Nordberg
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‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ – strange, unsettling
What a strange novel Giuliano da Empoli has written!
Jan 16
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Don Nordberg
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‘The Diplomat’ – telling a story through what’s not told
In 2023, when Netflix dropped the first season of its trans-Atlantic political drama “The Diplomat,” critics immediately spotted the likeness to an…
Jan 2
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UPDATE: Where to buy 'The Fleetwood Half-Orphan Asylum'
ebook versions – epub and Kindle – available now
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