I’ve written the introduction to a new Folio edition of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments - it’s published today as a stand alone piece in the Observer observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Get your blood pumping with Thunderstruck on xylophone: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source:

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When I started looking at HEMA videos for research I was pretty shocked how fast it moved. I always have to rewatch several times to get a good sense of what’s actually happened. But I think in prose you need leeway to fit in the narrative purpose and interiority.

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Not that I'm a massive fighter or anything, but any violent altercation I've been in or near (yay South Africa!) was literally over in seconds. Beyond not really enjoying it, protracted fight scenes in fiction just feel stupid (and oddly boring) to me.

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cut to the bone in the last five years, when publishing was making RECORD profits. When I criticise publishing I’m not talking about overworked people on a salary who love books, but a system in which pressure is exerted from above - & writers are on the bottom, with tasks & blame falling on them.

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