Guest speaker Doug Johnstone gave his book loving and writing audience at Largs Library a superb masterclass recently. Novelist, journalist and musician Doug was able to enthuse the book readers about his own writings whilst giving cogent rules and advice for the creative writers present.
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“So yeah, if Ed wants a wedding song, I will write him one.” Kodaline's new song 'Follow Your Fire' is produced by Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid and Steve Mac – who did Ed Sheeran's smash hit 'Shape of You' and Pink's 'What About Us' – and Steve says the pair pushed the band out of their “comfort
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Bahr owned BZ Media, a high-tech publishing company, for 19 years. “There were lots of white walls at the BZ Melville office,” he said. “So I put the posters up. That led to deciding to have a show for my friends.” Forty-five people came. “They were thrilled,” he said. “My wife, Rebecca, said, 'You should go
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He said the ongoing book fairs provides an opportunity for the intelligentsia from both countries to meet and discuss ways for enhancing the cultural exchanges. Meanwhile, President of the Union of Iraqi Publishers Abdulwahab Al-Radhi praised the Kuwaiti participation in the book fair, saying that the
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… had been diverted and left the puzzling remains of a civilisation by its dried-up course.” Wilkinson's writing is sharp, humorous and lyrically beautiful in his more reflective passages. Like Kalidasa's Cloud-Messenger, Wilkinson's “pootles” around the country in his search for the luminous and numinous,
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