This was one of the few books I have enjoyed reading recently. It is crime thriller and an easy captivating read.
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The Godless
Not a particularly good book. Nor is it that well written. But I enjoyed reading it all the same.
Looks like it is part of a series and it gets a bit gory at times. But it is an easy light read. The writer is a good story teller. Set in fourteenth century London it is supposed to have some historical significance which may or may not be particularly accurate.
Shirley Anne Rautenbach
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Dead Centre
Fast moving, action packed, almost believeable.
Another book by an ex Special Forces author. Well written and not too over the top. A light read for those who enjoy the genre.
Cold Blood
Another action thriller from Andy McNab. Cold Blood precedes the other two in the series which I have read.
An easy read with all the usual hardcore exploits expected from a fictional Special Forces operative.
Ruin Beach
Ruin Beach by Kate Rhodes is your stock standard, run of the mill ‘who dunnit’ crime novel.
A story set in a small island community, to pass the time by.
The Watercycler
Watercycler is my alter ego I suppose.
He is an adventurous bike riding river swimming rock climbing (but only under protest when trying to keep up with even more adventurous friends) guy who had the misfortune to have been raised by book burrowing English teachers. So he’s not really an alter ego at all, he’s me. Nice name, I like it, think I’ll keep it.
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The Age of Exodus
A run of the mill crime thriller set in a post Second World War Palestinian theme.
It’s not going to win any literary prizes but it passes the time and I managed to finish it
Mark Allan
Mike Hampton has a lot say. None of which is complimentary. Very active on the net. The very antithesis of what should be.
And the reason for this post.
I was one of half a dozen people to have challenged him in court. A forum where he has lost every time. Despite which it has little impact on him, on and the damage he does. He simply doubles down and it has taken this long to get any measure of accountability.
‘Irrational, offensive’ blogger jailed for six months without internet access
Writers in the Garden Route
According to Google Nikki Ridley is the only journalist and ghost writer on the Garden Route which for “a nook of the country that offers inspiration to the writers and artists whose presence gives it a trendy flavour”, this is a pretty poor showing. But at the same time it should be seen as both a challenge as well as an opportunity.
A challenge that took me all of three weeks to get this site to rank alongside hers and an opportunity to add some real value to what I have started. It’s not difficult to do. To the contrary anyone could do the same with little or no training.
And this brings me to the point of this post. What is it that is stopping us from making use of these sort of tools to open doors into the global market place? What is stopping us from setting up and and growing a local cottage based industry that is not driven by the erratic and unpredictable tourist traffic everyone sits back waiting for? And this is a direct challenge to every single one of those would be ghost writers to change the way it appears not to be.
We are looking for a newspaper that will be kind enough to mentor us. To track and record our little successes and more often than hoped for, failures. We are looking for writers who will let us have short sharp monthly features of two hundred words or less in return for us promoting and marketing their sites and or services. We want to build a workshop for emerging writers that does really work and it can be done if enough people have enough reasons to make it happen.