Adverbs and Adjectives: The Writer’s Enemy
Trigger Warning: For those of us who love language and don’t like to see it treated with cruelty, the following post contains some upsetting material, in which several rules of good writing are broken. The post also features adverbs from the beginning. ‘It’s about time I wrote a blog post,’ I thought to myself, tiredly,…
From Northwest Portugal to Northeast England: When Portugal’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Novelist Moved to Newcastle
The Portuguese town of Póvoa de Varzim is a short tram ride from Porto. Its beach is popular on sunny days, its outdoor café terraces bustling with day trippers who have taken the red line tram north to escape the city. Tourist shops selling buckets, spades and parasols can sit alongside small shoe repair shops…
The Impossible Case of John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) was the king of the impossible crime story, or the locked-room mystery. This sub-genre of crime is just as much about how it was done than who committed the crime. A body is found in a room which is locked from the inside. How did the killer enter and leave? This…
Inspiration and Perspiration: The Writer’s Life
Earlier this year, I spent a few days on the Lisbon coast. I stayed in Cascais, one of the towns along the so-called ‘Portuguese Riviera’, a stretch of coast whose beautiful beaches, south-facing aspect, and frequent sunny days make it a popular holiday destination. I walked around its cobbled streets, walked across wide-open popular beaches,…
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