Ask the Author: Alan Camrose
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Alan Camrose
Christmas is coming...I wondered why we have adopted, changed, embraced the various traditions of the festive season.
Crackers, trees, Santa himself, shrid pies...Shrid pies??
My book explores some of the origins of why we have Christmas as it is now, with a sprinkling of sugar plums and a warm glass of mulled wine...
Crackers, trees, Santa himself, shrid pies...Shrid pies??
My book explores some of the origins of why we have Christmas as it is now, with a sprinkling of sugar plums and a warm glass of mulled wine...
Alan Camrose
From my life, friends, family, media, everything I suppose that I experience - they all nag at me a little bit and sometimes they come together into one picture...
Alan Camrose
A wacky non-fiction book about beds and sleeping and how they are depicted in popular culture. Think a horse's head in a bed, Andy Warhol, and an evil bed that snacks on its guests!
Alan Camrose
I wouldn't presume to give any, but for me I try to stay positive that something will come if I sit there drinking enough coffee and stroking the cat...
Alan Camrose
Freedom! Especially at the moment...
Alan Camrose
I don't tend to suffer from this, but if there is a hiccup I tend to rotate among the various projects that I have on the go at the time...
Alan Camrose
I looked around me and all I could see were cuddly toys, 1970s sit-coms showing on endless TV screens, all the lights pastel pink in the walls and ceiling shining on infinite tendrils of candy-floss. Hell swallowed me up like a gulp of sickly honey as the sound of accordions accompanied my descent.
Alan Camrose
Quite a mixed bag!
It includes:
The Magician by W Somerset Maugham
The Institute by Stephen King
Spook Street by Mick Herron
Psmith in the City by P G Wodehouse
Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting - ready for winter!
It includes:
The Magician by W Somerset Maugham
The Institute by Stephen King
Spook Street by Mick Herron
Psmith in the City by P G Wodehouse
Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting - ready for winter!
Alan Camrose
I would visit the Discworld (Terry Pratchett) and seek out Moist Von Lipwig in Ankh Morpork because he always has soemthing wild and new going on, like inventing post offices and banks from scratch. We might learn from him how not to mess up this world...
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