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I grew up in Wales, was educated in England and have spent most of my life in France. I've been writing since the age of 10, when my first poem was sent to a competition by my English teacher. After moving to France, I ran a café-theatre till it got demolished, whereupon I scratched my head, wondering what to do next. Eventually I became a university lecturer, specialising in Second Language Acquisition, even though (apart, obviously, from French) I've spectacularly failed to learn any languages (I'm currently trying Dutch and can already say 'The turtle eats the sandwich', which is very encouraging). I spent two years in Mayotte, a tiny, unknown island in the Indian Ocean, which France bought for 1000 piastres in 1842. Magali Rousseau (my ...more

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	One Green Bottle (Magali Rousseau mystery series Book 1) 3.84 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truffle Trouble: Death in the Village (Sophie Kiesser mystery series Book 1) 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mystery Manor: Magali Rousseau mystery n° 4 (Magali Rousseau mystery series) 4.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Painter Palaver: Murder by Colours (Sophie Kiesser mystery series Book 3) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rabbit Hole: Weird Stories Volume One: A Writers Co-op Production by Curtis Bausse (Goodreads Author), Atthys Gage (Editor), G.D. Deckard (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perfume Island: A Magali Rousseau Mystery (Magali Rousseau mystery series Book 3) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rabbit Hole : Weird Stories Volume Zero: A Writers Coop Production by Curtis Bausse (Goodreads Author), Art Lasky, S.T. Ranscht 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calisson Calamity (Sophie Kiesser mystery #2) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cash in Carry (Magali Rousseau mystery series n°2) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Santon Strife (Sophie Kiesser series #4) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A big thank you to all who submitted a story to the Book a Break Flash Fiction competition. There were some very good entries, and selecting a winner wasn't easy. So my thanks also go to the judges, Sherry Morris and Phil Baarda, who settled on the following list:

Overall winner: Chris Cottom for his story Puffins Waiting.

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“In reality, every reader when he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

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