Richard E. Rock

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Richard E. Rock is a headbanging, cat-loving author from south Wales where he lives with his girlfriend.

His interests include Russian prison literature, Norwegian Black Metal and Scooby Doo.

If you're looking for him, you'll probably find him wedged up against the barrier at a heavy metal gig, for that is his natural habitat.
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Richard E. Rock Having just read The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I'm in the mood for a bit more 'gulag', so I'm going to investigate Faithful Ruslan. It's…moreHaving just read The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I'm in the mood for a bit more 'gulag', so I'm going to investigate Faithful Ruslan. It's the story of a gulag guard dog narrated by the dog itself. It certainly is an intriguing concept.
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My Friend Imposter Syndrome

My life changed the day I read an article about Imposter Syndrome in a newspaper. That’s me, I thought. That’s what’s been ‘wrong’ with me all these years!

In truth, of course, there’d never been anything ‘wrong’ with me. Imposter Syndrome – defined as a ‘an internal experience of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be’ – is a remarkably common phenomenon. It had never Read more of this blog post »
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I’ll be honest, I was never going to walk into a bookshop and pick up a memoir about encounters with someone’s local wildlife. It’s not really my thing. What made this an exception is that the ‘someone’ in question is Carly Holmes, the author of two ...more
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Where Blue Roses Bloom by Yasmine Maher
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When author Yasmine Maher’s first novel, Echo: the Curse of the Blackwood Witches, came out in 2022, I described it in a review as ‘a book for people who love books’. That one was a heady mix of fantasy, supernatural revelations and action. Since the ...more
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The Scrapbook by Carly Holmes
The Scrapbook
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Fern’s life plans have come to nothing and she has returned to the small island she vowed to leave forever to look after her mother, an alcoholic who’s spent most of her adult life pining for the married man who could never be hers. There is a third ...more
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True Tales Of The Supernatural by Tina Vantyler
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First of all, I have to thank author Tina Vantyler for creating that rarest of things: a book myself and my girlfriend can both enjoy. Our tastes in reading seldom cross over, but with this we found common ground. It was a magical thing!
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Crow Face, Doll Face by Carly Holmes
Crow Face, Doll Face
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I was lucky enough to attend a reading and Q&A with Carly Holmes, the author of this fine novel, during which the host – Elaine Canning, herself a novelist – proclaimed her admiration for Crow Face, Doll Face and stated that she’d read it three times ...more
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