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Here’s a question that has been puzzling me for some time – what is a valid, sustainable income for an author, and how does that translate into the output of authorship, i.e. books? I should perhaps explain the more fundamental thinking …

Dear Sir, We all love a bargain, and it can be quite galling to pay the kinds of rates some hotels see as normal for very basic facilities, so I applaud your pricing strategy. I also very much appreciated the warm welcome on arrival and …

The weekend before I was due to fly to Mumbai, I was starting to feel quite excited. A whole new continent and a whole new experience - having heard various things (positive and negative) about the place, I was keen to know in which camp I …

The universe. Profound in its enormity. The detailed atomic structure of a particle in the depths of space, simultaneously illustrating both immeasurable breadth and infinite detail. And likewise we are specks, motes, purposeless fragments …

The only thing we lacked was the numbers. There, I’ve said it. Thirty-forty people came, that’s a few over the number of tickets we sold; plus some local friends popped along for the afternoon to have a beer and listen in to the acoustic …

Well, well. Today I ran a marathon. Who would have thought it - and like so many things in my life, once again I have discovered just how much is possible if you set your mind to it. I'd love to say that it was a breeze, that it was tough …