Anna Ryland appreciation
Anna Ryland Anna joined TSL near the beginning of our publishing journey, following a meeting with another writing group. In bringing A Second Chance to print, Anna and I spent quite a bit of...
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Melville Lovatt appreciation
Melville Lovatt It is thanks to Melville Lovatt that TSL started the TSL Drama imprint. At the time he was with the now-closed Harrow Writers’ Circle and at one of our input sessions, liked...
Frank Parker appreciation
Frank Parker Frank came to TSL through one of our other authors – word of mouth is our most common recommendation – looking to have Called to Account published. Called to Account is an...
Somo ML Seimu appreciation
Somo ML Seimu Seimu joined TSL as an author following his submission to There Came A Time 2 of two articles on the legacy of the First World War in Tanzania in relation to...
#Review: Henry Dawe’s “The Autumn of My Years” #radio #play
The Autumn of My Years broadcast on Harborough FM, Leicestershire in November 2023 is a three-part, 120 minute long, radio play written by Henry Dawe, a TSL author. I don’t believe in recounting story...
James Tiptree: 10,000 Light Years from Home #Review #ScienceFiction #Dystopian
James Tiptree: 10,000 Light Years from Home I’ve umm’d and ah’d about whether to persevere with or give up reading James Tiptree Jnr’s “10,000 Light-Years from Home” (1977, Pan-Science Fiction). Even as I write,...
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Many when hearing I was reading Tess of the D’Urbervilles wished me good luck and said how brave I was. It was a book which a reading group I belong to decided to read...
#Review – A Home on Vorster Street: A Memoir by Razina Theba
A Home on Vorster Street: A Memoir by Razina Theba caught my eye for some reason – I can’t remember how I discovered it but with mention of memoir, Fordsburg and Oriental Plaza, it...
#Review: Adam’s Lock by Michael J Lansdown
Adam’s Lock by Michael J Lansdown is the first of a trilogy concerning the life of William Parker. I first encountered William Parker in Michael’s second book, The Land Beyond the Seas, which TSL...
TSL #author Leslie Tate #reviews …
Leslie Tate is a TSL author supporting TSL authors. He interviews authors whose books he takes a fancy to. In conversation with Leslie’s books
TSL #author Robbie Cheadle #reviews …
Robbie Cheadle is a TSL author supporting TSL authors. She reviews and interviews authors whose books she takes a fancy to. Books reviewed Realms of the Mist is no lobger published by TSL. Robbie’s...
TSL #author Frank Parker #reviews …
Frank Parker is a TSL author supporting TSL authors. He reviews and interviews authors whose books he takes a fancy to. Books reviewed In conversation with Frank’s book
Losing Henry by Ezra Williams #Shortstories #Review
Losing Henry is Ezra’s first published book of short stories. Published in 2007, 14 years before Fairytales and Oddities, it is a very different book to the latter. The stories are more grounded, less...
Authors and Writers #review #writingadvice
Keep remembering that you can please some of the readers some of the time, and some of the readers most of the time, but sometimes you will please only yourself, and you can never...
#Review: The Fever Trail – In search of the cure for Malaria by Mark Honigsbaum
Review: The Fever Trail – In search of the cure for Malaria by Mark Honigsbaum For those who know me, I am not a fan of anti-malarials and will do anything to avoid having...
#Review: A Million Years in a Day – Greg Jenner
Review: A Million Years in a Day – Greg Jenner I came across this book at the launch of the first Hillingdon Literary Festival back in 2015. Greg Jenner was the invited author of...
Santa Claws: A dark tale of Christmas – Gabriela Harding
Santa Claws: A dark tale of Christmas by Gabriela Harding was a fascinating read. A step or more outside my comfort zone, fantasy and horror, it appealed to my appreciation of difference. Clever twists...
It’s a little icy – #review of The Ice Age by Brian S John
I took a detour from my usual reading material and read The Ice Age: Past and Present (1977) by Brian S John (and in his own words) – it was on my bookshelf having...
Black Iris: Poems from Jordan by Alexander Williams
Black Iris: Poems from Jordan by Alexander Williams I met Alex at the premier showing of Heaven’s Rage (Leslie Tate and Mark Crane) in October 2017. Alex is multi-talented. At the showing of Heaven’s...
Ernest Hemingway
On our last day in Cuba, having visited Hemingway’s home – left exactly as it was when he’d been there – we chanced upon the launch of Ernest Hemingway’s Havana at the Buena Vista...