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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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John Purcell
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Everything I have done up till now has been research for The Girl on the Page.
As we near publication of my new novel, The Girl on the Page, I cannot but stop to wonder where the book came from. I wrote the novel so quickly. It just fell onto the page. Almost as if I had been researching it for years. But I hadn’t. I had just been working away at my day job selling books.Then it hit me. Rather belatedly, I’ll admit – everything I had done up till now had been research fo Read more of this blog post »
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The Lessons
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I received a review copy of Lost Lambs' from the publisher and picked it up on the strength of the cover knowing nothing about the book or the author. It turns out to be a debut, and a brilliant one at that. Centred on the dysfunctional Flynn family, ...more |
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| I've just come back from the UK where I lived in one of the most dangerous places on earth, a quaint English village. At any moment, I might have been murdered by the local vicar, the friendly publican, the sweet old lady next door or the postman. At ...more | |
“He must fly regularly. I don’t. Not any more. So I have been watching everything with interest. I love to watch people and eavesdrop. I can’t help myself. This scene, with passengers taking their seats and struggling with hand luggage, everyone at cross purposes, is repeated all day on dozens of flights at hundreds of airports and must seem commonplace to those working, but this moment won’t happen again. Not just to me, but to all of us. Life is like that.”
― The Lessons
― The Lessons
“I have everything written down somewhere. That’s all I have ever done. I record. I take notes. And now, as memory fades, that’s all I have left. I hate growing old. I hate this longing to be something I’m not. The desire to be young again. To relive those years, to do things differently, to write differently. To make amends. I would like never to look back. But it is all I seem capable of doing these days.”
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― The Lessons
“Of course I adopted a positive outlook. When in Rome. Besides, pessimism made one a pariah. Sarcasm was outlawed, irony unknown. If one couldn’t afford two cars, a pool, three bathrooms, and a television in every room, at least one could have an indefatigably positive outlook. It was a free country, after all. But somehow my optimism always struck the
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| Goodreads Librari...: These books are not mine please remove them | 2 | 15 | May 11, 2018 04:33PM | |
Aussie Readers:
Share Your Reviews (and Thoughts) Here - 2019
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Aussie Lovers of...:
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Aussie Readers:
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| All About Books: What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2 | 10004 | 1060 | Feb 23, 2023 07:22PM | |
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| Around the Year i...: Phil's ATY 2023 | 3 | 27 | Sep 26, 2023 07:53PM |
“What do we usually mean by "literature"? A world of rhetoric, triteness, rounded phrases and respectable names, of people who have looked at life when they were young but who, once they have achieved fame, confine themselves to abstractions, to rehashing & to cautious common sense.”
― An Essay in Autobioghaphy
― An Essay in Autobioghaphy
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you back in Oz ya old bugger? where's the next book? and I hope you're well - in that order! T
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