Mark Charan Newton

What more could you want to get you in the mood this festive season that a short story based on honour killings set in the midlands. Online at Serendipity magic realism magazine.
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Last night I went to see Bruce Springsteen play at the O2 Arena, in London. And what a mighty concert it was too. There’s been so much talk of various bands reuniting in recent times, and with all the hype you forget sometimes who the truly great musicians are. Then you get talk of the [...]

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I read this and felt it was a great shame indeed. M John Harrison has provided one of the best blogs on the Interwebs. It was like a writer’s notebook, and a great insight into the head of a very important man in the industry, although he’d maybe hate me for calling him ‘a man [...]

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The Reef is now available for pre-order… Rather chuffed at this. Page doesn’t yet have cover art, but will do very shortly. It does however have two very nice pieces of blurbage. Hurrah for that. I’m also hoping that a piece of short fiction may well be accepted too, so maybe this is the start [...]

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This isn’t going to be a coherent review, because, for me, it wouldn’t suit the book. The Alexandria Quartet comprises of four novels, Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea. The first two are the most tightly linked, for everything you know in Justine is looked at from another angle, although still from the same narrator. Mountolive [...]

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Very nice it is too. Clean design. And, how lovely, my book, The Reef, is on the front page. Splendid. All designed by genre web guru, Darren, the Interweb artist formally known as Ariel.
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Brother Ass, the so-called act of living is really an act of the imagination. The world—which we always visualize as ‘the outside’ World—yields only to self-exploration! Faced by this cruel, yet necessary paradox, the poet finds himself growing gills and a tail, the better to swim against the currents of unenlightenment.
 —Lawrence Durrell, Clea. 
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Beirut are a fantastic indie band. Radio One, you can keep your Arcade Fire. I have high hopes for music with groups like this.
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