Hearts of Ice and Stone is on the way
It's nearly here, my first book intended for fully mature grown up adults. In addition, it's good for people who enjoy a rather macabre...
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martindukes
- Jul 12
- 2 min
Worm Winds is coming
Worm Winds of Zanzibar, second in the Alex Trueman Chronicles is already available to pre-order and is to be published on 21st July. The...
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martindukes
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Zanzibar Rising
We’re nearly there. After much editing, proof-reading, cover design and publicity work Worm Winds of Zanzibar is ready for its public and...
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martindukes
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Book Review: Waterspell Book 4 by Deborah J lightfoot
Deborah J Lightfoot creates such an immersive and convincing world in her Waterspell series that I feel saddened to reach the end of it....
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martindukes
- May 30
- 2 min
Bad Calls
On March 10th 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call in history. I like to think this is what he heard. “We are expecting...
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martindukes
- May 19
- 1 min
The lure of Zanzibar
Zanzibar, a sun-drenched archipelago off the east coast of Arica has long held a fascination for travellers. Its history is an...
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martindukes
- May 13
- 1 min
Worm Winds is coming!
Things are getting moving now as we approach publication day for the second in Alex Trueman’s adventures, ‘Worm Winds of Zanzibar.’ In...
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martindukes
- May 3
- 1 min
Book Review: Waterspell Book 3 by Deborah J Lightfoot
The second book of Deborah J Lightfoot’s Waterspell Series left me enthralled by its dramatic climax and eager to read more. Nor was I to...
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martindukes
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Book Review: Waterspell Book 2 by Deborah J Lightfoot
I very much enjoyed The Warlock, the first in Deborah J Lightfoot’s Waterspell quadrology so I was really looking forward to reading the...
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martindukes
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Memories are made of this
I joined Ancestry.com last week. I think my reason for doing this was a desire to place myself in an historical context, to see my life...
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martindukes
- Feb 24
- 1 min
Book Review: Waterspell Book 1 by Deborah J Lightfoot
There is an impressively immersive quality in Deborah J Lightfoot's, writing which draws you in and keeps you there as the pages turn....
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martindukes
- Feb 14
- 3 min
Cover story
Reading is an intensely visual experience. On first impression, one might conclude that looking at a cartoon strip or a picture book is...
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martindukes
- Feb 8
- 2 min
I 'heart' Art
I always loved English and History at school but I guess my favourite class was Art. Drawing was something that always came easy to me...
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martindukes
- Feb 3
- 1 min
Mermaid and Dragon
This is an image I made to illustrate a children's story I wrote, entitled 'Rebecca and the Dark Horse. I tried various illustrational...
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martindukes
- Feb 2
- 1 min
"Shroom" for improvement
This, my friends, is a ‘mushroom’ and always will be, so why have I noticed it increasingly being referred to as a ‘shroom’ on the menus...
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martindukes
- Jan 29
- 1 min
Totally Taken by Tolkien
I was growing up in the sixties and seventies and the first book I can remember being totally bowled over by was The Hobbit. This book...
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martindukes
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Book Review- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
I suppose one shouldn’t be surprised to find that a book which won the Booker Prize is really rather good, and so I was reassuringly...
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martindukes
- Jan 17
- 3 min
If my book was made into a movie (well, I can dream!)
My first reaction, upon being offered a contract proposing to make a movie of my book, would be delight. How could it not be? In my...
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martindukes
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
Caught in a moment
There’s something infinitely fascinating about Time. I know I’m not the only one to think so, given the large number of books and movies...
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martindukes
- Dec 13, 2021
- 3 min
If I had a superpower
I’m sure that one reason for the success of Marvel and DC comics is that they tap into a deep vein of human aspiration, the desire to be...
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