Mark Charan Newton

A little wisdom from Black Books. We’ve all been there.

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Courtesy of Ms Alethea Kontis (check out her books), I give you this fine glumbert video of people going absolutely mad in the office.
The guy with the foam is the best.
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An interesting piece, in which Zadie Smith says that entrants into a story competition aren’t good enough. So no one wins.
This is a difficult thing to write. Just like everybody, we at The Willesden Herald are concerned about the state of contemporary literature. We are depressed by the cookie-cutter process of contemporary publishing, the lack [...]

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I’ve had quite a few questions about this, so in case anyone’s wondering what the book is about, here’s a summary (and to be read in a deep Hollywood voice, please):
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An ice age comes to a chain of islands.
Villjamur: a city of ancient spires and bridges, where banshees declare the dead. You can see dodgy [...]

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Kind of irrelevant posting this piece on here, but I’ve moved home from the old blog and am now at this site permanently. Just so we grouped everything together nicely. It looks exactly the same, just the bit at the top is different.
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