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Review: Walk With Us

June 23rd, 2016

"I basically want to be Sam Seaborn," I said. "Don't we all?!" he replied. I was being interviewed ...
Books, On Culture, Reviews
Surprisingly good reads

May 3rd, 2016

I have to admit, they didn't sound promising as holiday reads, a book about dementia and ...
Books, On Life, Reviews
Review: Resurrection Year

February 23rd, 2016

"Books like this usually end with a miracle." So said one of the potential publishers of ...
Books, On Faith
Review: I Am Malala

January 21st, 2016

What an outstanding start to my year's reading! I Am Malala is a beautifully paced, perfectly pitched telling ...
Books, On Life, Reviews
At the turn of the year

January 4th, 2016

Yes, it's one of those 'review of last year, looking forward to next year' posts, and ...
Books, On Culture, Reviews, Some Beans
“Famous person is human – Shock”

December 21st, 2015

Last Monday the Daily Mail ran a 'news' story showing the Duchess of Cambridge looking weary as ...
In the News, On Culture, On Faith, On Life, Personhood, ThinkTheology
The Jar of Experiences (or ‘This year I may or may not become a spy’)

November 19th, 2015

I love birthdays! I'm not very good at parties, though. I worry about how I'll keep ...
Books, On Life, Some Beans
Two winners, and an ode to green teacups

October 7th, 2015

Congratulations to Alan Taylor and Caroline Butcher - winners of Finding Myself in Britain, by Amy ...
Books, On Life, Some Beans
When Strangers Become Friends

October 1st, 2015

I first met Amy at the launch of my friend Chine Mbubaegbu's book Am I Beautiful? "Hi," I ...
Books, Editing, On Faith, On Life, Reviews
The Inside Out, Second Choice Life You Never Expected, And How To Deal With It

August 6th, 2015

When life gives you lemons, so they say, you should make lemonade. But what about when ...
Books, Movies, On Faith
Sickening logic

March 27th, 2015

I've just read a news report of a sickening crime: Days ago, Lane committed a horrific ...
In the News, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
Review: Celebration of Discipline

March 2nd, 2015

I love books I have to read with a pencil in my hand. Well, that's not ...
Books, On Faith, Reviews, Things that matter
Deeper

January 1st, 2015

At the end of 2008 I decided to count how many books I had read that ...
Books
Review: The Dust Diaries

August 27th, 2014

One of the dilemmas of holidays is what books to take. Yes, I know this is what ...
Books, On Culture, Reviews
A Time to Die

June 9th, 2014

D-Day landings, 800 children in an unmarked grave, and a new euthanasia law in Canada. Three news stories in the last week which reveal our conflicting attitudes to death and the value of life.
In the News, On Culture, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
Review: Eight Essentials: Keys to Success for New Writers

March 12th, 2014

So you want to be a writer, huh? But where to start? That’s the big question. Well, ...
Books, Habits of Great Writers, Reviews
An Epidemic of Everyday Violence

March 3rd, 2014

Billions of the world's poorest people have no access to law enforcement to protect them from ...
Books, On Life, Reviews, Things that matter
Three Reasons why you MUST have a Copyeditor

January 27th, 2014

The inspiration for this post came, in two ways, from someone who describes himself as 'a ...
Books, Editing, Other
…and the winner is…

September 16th, 2013

...Annie Carter! Your copy of Am I Beautiful? will be winging its way to you soon. Thanks to all ...
Books
Am I Beautiful?

September 13th, 2013

I gave greater-than-normal consideration to what I wore yesterday. In the evening I was going to ...
Books, On Faith, On Life, Reviews
Holiday Reading

September 6th, 2013

In an attempt to cling onto the last vestiges of my holiday, and following Andrew Wilson's ...
Books, On Faith, Quotations, ThinkTheology
Review: God*Stories

August 30th, 2013

You know those adverts for dog food that show rich, meaty chunks, in bite-sized pieces, smothered ...
Books, On Faith, Reviews, ThinkTheology
Review: The Godless Boys

August 19th, 2013

There are some books which get loads of hype, then you read them and think 'why? ...
Books, On Faith, Reviews
Surrendering this fruitless freedom for some infinitely gentler authority. Naomi Wood, The Godless Boys I spent last Wednesday evening ...
Review: Resistance

July 8th, 2013

Owen Sheers is a man of many talents. I first stumbled across him a few weeks ago ...
Books, Reviews
Bodies Matter

June 27th, 2013

I feel like Hercule Poirot. Not in the sense that everywhere I go I leave a ...
Between the Lines, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter
What’s the point of reading?

June 4th, 2013

Last weekend I made my first pilgrimage to the UK's biggest and best literary event: the ...
Arts, Books, On Culture, Reviews, Things that matter
We are not solitary self-defining intellectual identities who form temporary alliances with each other for short-term ...
Review: The Sea Change

May 3rd, 2013

I'm not sure whose trepidation was greater when Joanna Rossiter handed me a review copy of ...
Books, Reviews
Doing What’s Right, Right

April 25th, 2013

The following post first appeared on ThinkTheology, and follows on from a couple of other posts there, ...
Books, On Life, Personhood, Things that matter, ThinkTheology

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