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…and another thing about Non Fiction…

By Nicola | Published: January 1, 2017

Had there been the option to dance until dawn I would have taken it, but as there wasn’t, I spent New Year’s Eve with my fire and two films. The first was one I’d frankly been putting off, as I knew it would be harrowing. ‘Beasts of No Nation’ follows the story of a child […]

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Back In The Real World

By Nicola | Published: June 16, 2016

Last week I was three ways high. High in the Abruzzi mountains of Italy, up in a medieval hill top village looking out on a landscape of hobbit hills and snow streaked peaks. High on the smell and sound of the place – awash with flowers and alive with natural music, nightingales, cuckoos,frogs.     […]

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Shaped By Nature

By Nicola | Published: January 8, 2014

  Outside there’s a brief hole in the rain, but by this evening South Wales will be lashed again with the kind of downpour you only used to see in tropical monsoons, although here of course the deluge comes at an angle and at a lower temperature! On the other side of the Atlantic, Eastern […]

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Why Write Non Fiction?

By Nicola | Published: August 16, 2012

For a while now there has been terrible gloom amongst the writers of non fiction for children. almost no body gets paid royalties, just a flat fee, and that has been getting flatter and flatter, and is now so flat for many writers as to be a molecular monolayer. And it isn’t just the money, […]

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