The Story of the I

I’m serialising ‘Jackie Price’ (young girl follows her delinquent brother across the country, younger brothers and sisters in tow, in search of their mother) on Twitter. God knows how long it will take, but those in the mood for gritty urban realism can get it in 140 character chunks for as long as it takes (or until someone buys it and tells me to stop).

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To quote Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – you thought I was dead, but I’m not.

Quite the contrary - I am alive – and I am currently gearing up for some exam marking, invigilating, second draft finishing and book group visiting (come to Diss library on the 20th May – it’s in Norfolk).

I am currently reading Tim Mitchell’s ‘Truth and Lies in Murder Park’ (very nearly finished, honestly – then I’ll get started on the review), Patrick Hamilton’s ‘20,000 Streets Under the Sky’ (I’m setting the book after next in a pub, that’s all there is to it) and in the downstairs toilet there is (holding back the shelf full of LRB back issues) ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.’ I was rather snotty about it when it came out, it being about wizards and all, but when I saw it for 80p in a library clear out in Crystal Palace a week or two ago I couldn’t resist, rationalising it to myself as very good value for money at 0.1p per page and a possible capital investment that might later find its way onto eBay. It very well still might, but not until after I’ve read it…

I’ve also been invited to a party, which is very nice. Will certainly not be blogging about it though, under Chatham House rules (or whatever they’re called).

Anyway, nice to be back.

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