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Andrew Cheffings

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Andrew Cheffings was born on a small working farm on the Lincolnshire Marsh. But the local small farming culture he was born into was gradually coming to an end after a long decline following the Enclosures, almost two centuries before. His Grandfather still spoke N. Lincolnshire dialect and had a store of stories, aurally transmitted through the generations. Evenings with him were often spent enjoying these stories and those of his Grandmother, who had written a few down decades earlier and sent them to the ‘Farmers’ Weekly’ who published them in their magazine during the second world war.

Life on the farm had its difficulties. And Andrew’s father remembered a time when every winter was spent digging long trenches by hand, right across the
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“Music became the only place where their silence could finally speak.”

In my novel ‘Green Twining’ Joe, Sean, Tim and David hide their inner lives beneath a veneer of ‘normality’. It is music which sets them free, allows chinks to open in their armour and a little light to shine out: the light of hidden, forbidden love. And this light can be as surprising to the person emitting it as to those who feel its warmth, hidden within the walls of the music room.

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This is a really interesting book if you want to find out more about the city of Oran as it moved from Ottoman control to French control. It is very interesting finding more about how the French sought to mould the Jewish community in the city to sui ...more
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I adore this book. Maurice El Médioni was an astonishing pianist and a carrier of a centuries old musical culture of the Jewish community of North Africa. Of course that culture has been exiled and dispersed now, depressingly - as usual! In his own g ...more
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I loved this book. It is truly wonderful. I was left with lots of questions. But Simon Schama could not possibly answer them all. The book is so thick already. So many rich stories. So many hidden stories revealed. Sometimes I call these books 'The S ...more
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I found this book entertaining and enjoyable in the main. But I also found it a little odd in terms of sexual politics. The most interesting part for me was the section in the forest. The forest was a wild place where you could hide for a while and b ...more
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I found this book entertaining and enjoyable in the main. But I also found it a little odd in terms of sexual politics. The most interesting part for me was the section in the forest. The forest was a wild place where you could hide for a while and b ...more
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