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Abe & Eddie

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A native of Devonshire now landlocked in Switzerland, I write fiction for adults & children and translate. Website: https://teapaw.org/t.co/8LsIfZVKrw

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Joined March 2021
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Quite blown away by this NetGalley review of Flowers from the Black Sea that appeared on Amazon today
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So, after much fretting & sleepless nights, my next novel is finally complete and with the editor. Time to get on with other work. Meanwhile, 'Flowers from the Black Sea' is still attracting readers
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I am writing a book on Nigel Farage for @headlinepg. No holds will be barred. Nigel has said of me that I caused him “more misery than any other in my 25 years in politics”. Hello Nigel. Out in September.
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My consultant of choice: Dr Alice, specialist in wonders
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One more reason, if any were needed, to keep reading and writing theguardian.com/society/2026…
Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study suggests

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study suggests

Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

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In the UK and elsewhere, bibliotherapy has been soaring in popularity as a way to improve wellbeing. While the benefits of self-help literature are well documented, advocates of fiction-based or "creative bibliotherapy" claim similar advantages. bbc.com/future/article/20250…
'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy

'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy

"Bibliotherapy" has been soaring in popularity as a means of improving people's wellbeing. But getting it right depends on the book, and the person.

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Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules! theguardian.com/books/ng-int…
Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!

Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know…

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In Orban’s Hungary, so beloved by Trump, “the state has taken control of one of the country’s largest publishers, homophobic legislation has reshaped bookshops and writers complain of shrinking opportunities.” theguardian.com/world/2026/j…
‘It has become difficult to live’: Hungarian writers bemoan country’s hostile environment

‘It has become difficult to live’: Hungarian writers bemoan country’s hostile environment

Nobel prize for László Krasznahorkai provides a rare glimpse of unity in a nation divided on party lines

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According to the top 10 "Banished Words List" we can at last stop "reaching out" and "incentivizing" with a clear conscious. Next up "going forward"? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/…
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The irrational exuberance of AI boosters & their cynical coupling with Trump is a familiar story of human greed & myopia, not a new stage in evolution. The product is truly phenomenal but flawed in ways that encode the deformed character of its progenitors theguardian.com/commentisfre…
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr

When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr

The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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🎄Looking for a Christmas miracle, folks! 🎄 3k followers for Christmas would be a lovely Xmas prezzie. Bots/marketeers welcome. But don't expect me reply to DMs! 😂 I'll risk most, & follow back 🎅 #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #follow #Twitter #followers
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"We took a piece of guerrilla journalism about Trump and Epstein, and it was viewed 20m times” This is worth a read for the hilarious account of the police response theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
What happened next: the night Led By Donkeys projected Trump and Epstein on to Windsor Castle

What happened next: the night Led By Donkeys projected Trump and Epstein on to Windsor Castle

The art activists made headlines during the US president’s state visit when they shocked the waiting media with a short documentary – and were quickly arrested

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'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice bbc.com/culture/article/2025…
'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.

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Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape. Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words - and voices. Take a listen. nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books…
Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.

Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.

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Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals. bbc.com/travel/article/20251…
Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'

Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'

Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals.

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The late JG Ballard's novel Kingdom Come is almost 20 years old, but anticipates today’s Britain with eerie precision. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20...

Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20...

The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Share the books that bring you joy - and win a year's subscription to Hay Festival plus a set of The Pleasure List books to be announced on the eve of Hay Festival 2026. hayfestival.com/the-pleasure…
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For the evening crowd: I've been reading quite a lot of Weimar Era fiction lately and got wondering about art in time of turmoil findingtimetowrite.wordpress…

More ‘Happy’ People from the Weimar Era

Hermann Kesten: Glückliche Menschen (Happy People), 1931 I think the Weimar Republic years in Germany seem happy in retrospect only when we compare them with what preceded and followed them. Yes, t…

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Word #hacks for #writers. What shortcut treasure do we have today? O,P and Q. What do they do? Watch the video! Don't forget, you can see the list on my website: flisszak.com/list-of-word-ha… #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #WritingTips
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Restoring Elspeth - a new book bringing dignity to a woman made famous by how her life ended: condemned as a witch to die a horrible death. Told largely through a sequence of poems. restoringelspeth.co.uk/
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Sweden may have been politically neutral during the second world war, but Lindgren was an ardent anti-Nazi and a news junkie ... The creation of Pippi Longstocking was her way of dealing with the darkness seeping into her life. theguardian.com/film/2025/de…
‘The antithesis to Nazi ideology’: how Pippi Longstocking was born to stand up to Hitler

‘The antithesis to Nazi ideology’: how Pippi Longstocking was born to stand up to Hitler

A new documentary explores how Astrid Lindgren’s beloved children’s books about the pigtailed free spirit were written in response to the darkest days of the second world war

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