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Category Archives: Literary giants
I’m bound to cross the line*
I made landfall in America, as many before me have done, at Los Angeles International Airport aka LAX, where I was photographed, fingerprinted and treated to a full body scan sans shoes. While I get the need for security, I found it disturbing that everyone wishing … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Savage, Arizona, domestic violence, Hayden Butte, Phoenix
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The Goddess of Tartan Noir
It was my great pleasure to interview the “Goddess of Tartan Noir” (we all agreed “Queen” was just too, well, royalist) Val McDermid during her recent visit to Melbourne at an event hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia in collaboration with Melbourne’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Savage, Leigh Redhead, photos, Sisters in Crime Australia, The Skeleton Road, Val McDermid
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Val Down Under: Talking with the Queen of Tartan Noir
Media release from the Sisters in Crime Australia website Tartan Noir Queen Val McDermid will be in wild and wonderful conversation with Australian crime author, Angela Savage, about her latest psychological thriller, The Skeleton Road, at Melbourne’s Comedy Club, 6 … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Savage, Sisters in Crime Australia, The Skeleton Road, Val McDermid
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Video: Alexander McCall Smith
The Wheeler Centre has released the video of my immensely enjoyable interview with Alexander McCall Smith. For your viewing pleasure, the link is here.
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Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, Angela Savage, The Wheeler Centre, video
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Agatha Christie on writing
To celebrate the 123rd anniversary of the Queen of Crime’s birthday, I give you Agatha Christie’s advice on writing, as gleaned from her wonderful autobiography. Aspiring authors will take heart to learn that Agatha Christie, who published over 100 novels, … Continue reading
Moveable feasts
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast — Ernest Hemingway I recently spent … Continue reading
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Tagged Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Latin Quarter, Mouffetard, Paris, Paris Walks
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Recreating the past: Agatha Christie, archaeology & fiction
‘Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim [In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate]. That is the Arab phrase used before starting out on a journey. Eh bien, we too start on a journey. A journey into the past. A journey … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Angela Savage, archaeology, Bernard Caleo, crime fiction, Kerry Greenwood, Mesopotamia, Patrick Greene
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Walk on the Wilde side
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde disdained walking and travelled between his favourite London haunts … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Titchard, Dorothy Parker, London Walks, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde quotes, walking tours London
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