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Bromo, book six – an extract
‘Morning, can I help you?’ The receptionist smiled her greeting. ‘I hope so. At least you look as if you want to.’ A clumsy compliment, Bromo chided himself. But well…
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Some things academia will never learn
WHAT is it about proofreading and editing that academics find so hard to understand? Yet again a university student has requested my help in preparing their thesis for submission. And…
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Cure needed for pandemic’s verbal virus
The lexicographers are working overtime. New words are being coined, reviewed and added to dictionaries worldwide almost daily. It seems there’s nothing like disasters and pandemics to send the spin…
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A taut, twisting and tantalising time with the Perfect Wife
For once I can use the phrase “a true page turner” with utter conviction. And happily add the clumsier “unputdownable”. This novel fully merits both descriptions. And though I am…
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Isolation boredom or Russian Roulette?
These are indeed strange and unsettling times. Such that they have resurrected thoughts of Parkinson’s Law, which famously stated way back in 1955 that “work expands so as to fill…
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Interior design – good to look at, not to use
EVERY day I am confronted by a very visible and irritating triple reminder of one of the more regrettable recent errors of my ways. A stark and unavoidable footnote to…
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When a virus spreads, the dictionary swells
It was only a few days ago that I suggested many of the words and phrases that have already become lingua franca during the recent global crisis were sure to…