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The
Irony of The Road
Movie is that the weak leave, but only the strong survive
From the earliest days of American cinema,
the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and
the image of America to the world. By my definition, the road
movie is a vehicle for either one or a small group of individuals
who seek to escape the world they are living in and set out
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Mean
Tide by Sam North
'Extraordinary novel about a child's psychic awakening'
ISBN: 978-1-4092-0354-4
'An engaging, unusual and completely engrossing
read'
- Beverly Birch author of 'Rift'
Kids can survive anything, they say.
Oliver, aged twelve, has a missing father in Africa, his mother
has had a breakdown, and he is recovering from chemo. He is
sent to live with his only relative. On a foggy day, one bald
boy, with his cat, Flop, arrives at his Grandma's house at the
water's edge in Greenwich. Oliver discovers to his horror that
his Grandma, a famous psychic, hates cats. Her housekeeper,
Lena loathes kids, and silent Justine seems to hate everyone.
Add crazy Harriet, who has seen every fortune teller in London;
Aura, a mysterious, aspiring beautiful actress and Bullet, the
homeless kid with a very mean streak, trouble can't be far behind.
When Oliver and Justine find a beautiful dog with it's throat
cut washed up on the riverbank, Oliver feels a strange connection
to this dead animal and so begins his own induction into a psychic
world. - New
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ANTHOLOGY
June
2008
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Borderlines
Vol 2 A Literary Spark -
ISBN:
978-1-4092-0494-7
A
University of Portsmouth publication from the School of Creative
Arts, Film and Media- Available from Lulu Press June 2008
Borderlines Vol 2 - A literary Anthology of new fiction, travel
writing and poetry from the Creative Writing Programme and invited
writers at the University of Portsmouth, UK under the editorship
of Freya Scott, Ryan Sirmons, Aby Davis and Sam North
'An exciting insight into the amazing talent and diversity
of new writers out there today' Stuart
Olesker - Playwright
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A
Bernado Bertolucci retrospective -
Bernardo Bertolucci is the
one of the key influences of why I love cinema. When I first
discovered him in 1971 his work made a huge impact on me as
a film student. He began with Before the Revolution in 1964
a story about University intellectual who has sided with
the communist rebels in Italian society and it being a Bertolucci
film, he is also having an incestuous relationship with his
aunt. Filmed when he was just 22 it revealed his skills as
a brilliant stylist, if not a great storyteller.
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Researching
the Novel and when to stop and write
For
future historical novelists writing about the present, they
will find blogs of overwhelming trivial details of just
about every single person on the planet. They may well find
it hard to penetrate six billion souls and make meaning
out it, but the information will be there.
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Coming to the Winchester Writers Conference? See you there
June 28th 2008
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Sam North is a Senior
Lecturer in Creative Writing & Course Leader for the
MA in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth
- now in its fourth successful year
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Since
1999 Sam has been running the on-line magazine Hackwriters.com
a site for international writers in all subject areas. In
2001 as Hackwriters won Skylines Travel Writers of the year
award, nominated for the New Statesman education award in
2006. It continues as a place for new and 'experienced'
writers to showcase their work. As of writing there are
4300 articles posted on site.
email: sam.north at port.ac.uk
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