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  • Featured image for New year books and art: Ginger Rogers in Cheek to Cheek

    New Year Books and Art

    New Year Books I had more time than usual for reading over Christmas and New Year, mainly because I abandonned social media. Fortunately, Santa had provided me with lots of interesting things to read, and it being a time for relaxation I picked the lighter options first. If you have read my writing style page,

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  • Featured image for The Myths of Classic Crime Fiction: Sunny Summer at Stonehenge by Emily Tellwright. A pastel drawing.

    The Myths of Classic Crime Fiction

    ‘ “Detective stories contain a dream of justice. they project a vision of a world in which wrongs are righted, and villains are betrayed by clues that they did not know they were leaving. A world in which murderers are caught and hanged, and innocent victims are avenged, and future murder is deterred.” “But it

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  • A collection of charcoal drawings of Fred Astaire dancing.

    Fred Astaire and Singer Sargent: Inspiration and Entertainment

    By the Skin of My Teeth April’s blog post is finally here with some new artwork of Fred Astaire, just in time! It’s been an eventful month that has flown by packed with stress, achievement and family commitments. The stress was mostly due to the new Castle Sefton Press online store, which proved to be

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