The house was in a kind of mews, not directly on the river. Compact, made of old brick. It was a world away from the backstreets of Hackney where he’d grown up. That was an even longer time ago. Yet another name, and another life. He frowned. He didn’t need stuff like that surfacing. He was American, nowadays [...]
Highland Storms by Christina Courtenay
Having already read and enjoyed Christina Courtenay’s previous two novels, Trade Winds and The Scarlet Kimono, you’d think that I would have learned my lesson and left Highland Storms for a weekend when I had some uninterrupted reading time. But no, despite knowing that I find it incredibly hard to put one of her books down, [...]
Posted by kath on December 5, 2011
http://nutpress.co.uk/2011/12/highland-storms-by-christina-courtenay/
Another Year, Another NaNoWriMo
I wasn’t going to do NaNoWriMo again this year. Right up until October 27th, I was firmly in the “Been there, Done that, Got the Winner 2010 Blog Badge” camp. And then I had an email exchange with a Twitter pal… …and, as you can tell from the shiny new blog badge, I decided to [...]
Posted by kath on December 1, 2011
http://nutpress.co.uk/2011/12/another-year-another-nanowrimo/
Persuade Me by Juliet Archer
If I tell you that Jane Austen is one of my favourite authors and has been since I was a teenager; that Persuasion is not only my favourite of all her books but one of my all-time favourite books; and that Captain Wentworth is my favourite literary hero, then you’ll probably understand why I might have [...]
Posted by kath on September 15, 2011
http://nutpress.co.uk/2011/09/persuade-me-by-juliet-archer/
Time for Change
Help sometimes comes from the most unexpected of sources, doesn’t it? This summer, I had to put my writing on hold to earn some money. Shocking, I know, but apparently money is still useful, particularly if you want to pay your bills and eat. Rather than just take any old job to get some money [...]
Posted by kath on September 13, 2011
http://nutpress.co.uk/2011/09/time-for-change/
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Welcome to The Nut Press, online home of writer Kathryn Eastman. What will you find here? Book reviews, chocolate tasting, adventures with squirrels, a lot of tea drinking, and a snoring pussy cat, among other things. Oh, and very occasionally, some writing gets done.
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