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Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 1642again 2645 Comments

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]

David Sedgwick, Going Postal
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Amazon’s Dirty Tricks: When the BBC Calls

15th April 2020 Going Postal 2666 Comments

Readers of this website might have heard about my recently published critique of the BBC, ‘The Fake News Factory: Tales from BBC-land’ a fruity and occasionally witty expose of the UK’s thoroughly dishonest state propaganda [more…]

Patrick Barron, Going Postal
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A Parable for Our Time

14th April 2020 Patrick Barron 1818 Comments

One of my fondest books as a child was Doctor at Timberline, by Charles Fox Gardiner. Gardiner was a doctor early in the settlement of western Colorado in the nineteenth century. Each chapter of the [more…]

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Some Things to do in Lockdown

19th March 2020 Jonathon Davies 4221 Comments

Well frens, it’s been a little while since I’ve written. Dad passing away, sorting his affairs, loss of old job, moving to new job, very busy. One thing to come out of it all is [more…]

Roger Ackroyd, Going Postal
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Tales from the Book Crypt

30th January 2020 Roger Ackroyd 3121 Comments

As a regular visitor to and buyer at auctions across the South of England I have become used to viewing lots and waiting for hours for the items I am interested in to come under [more…]

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Book Review: The Unseen Path by JD de Pavilly

28th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 5796 Comments

They say that Freddie Forsyth is happy to review any new written work. The caveat being that, if after half an hour he is bored or confused, the soft bits (that’s your or my great [more…]

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From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey

5th July 2019 Colin Cross 3285 Comments

Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]

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The Unseen Path – Publication

1st May 2019 1642again 4257 Comments

The first Going Postal serialised novel – The Unseen Path – is now published and available to purchase.  It was serialised over the course of about 11 months in 2017/18, and ran to about 180,000 [more…]

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Review – Hugh Trevor-Roper: the biography

2nd March 2018 Going Postal 1649 Comments

When I first spotted this book in the library, I wasn’t sure whether or not to pick it up – I already had an armful to take out, and wasn’t looking for another one. Like, [more…]

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