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The strange case of POSH Mark Haddon…

Posted on January 19, 2016September 30, 2023 by shaun belcher

Part of my new found ‘freedom’ is the ability to find bargains ( both cost me 50p which at 25p each makes it the cheapest pair of books I bought all week) and secondly having the time to actually read the damn things… So not only are they like buses but I have read both…

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First fiction for work-shopping: ‘Flying Fish’

Posted on November 8, 2014November 8, 2014 by shaun belcher

  The first chapter involves all of the above 🙂 I have finally after 30 years of thinking about it produced 2000 words of prose fiction which a relief as I had built up a mental block of ever actually doing it because I have been so immersed in art and poetry. The document has…

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A Crow in Barley….the novel I never wrote…

Posted on September 23, 2014June 9, 2016 by shaun belcher

22nd July 1990. Unemployed and back home in Didcot, for sale Oxfordshire with my parents….aged 31..not good. So what do I do..apart from a lot of off the cards building work and fencing and green party activism…this..I start writing a rural novel…..obviously.. Hand typed ( I didn’t type) on an old 60’s Office Remington I…

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