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The Sourdough Posts: Under the Mountain
Image taken from page 78 of “Songs for Little People,” published in 1896. (The British Library)
The Sourdough Posts: Under the Mountain
Ah,
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The Sourdough Posts: Lavender and Lychgates
Arthur Rackham, Girl Beside a Stream
Oh noes! Second last Sourdough story! Soon it will all be over. 🙁
With “Lavender and Lychgates” I wanted to draw some threads together: I wanted to see Emmeline and
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Another Bitterwood Bible Giveaway!
Lisa’s photo
To mark Bitterwood’s shortlisting for the World Fantasy Awards, Tartarus Press and I are celebrating by giving away another copy of the increasingly rare limited edition hardcover of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (we’re down to roughly the last one hundred copies), with illustrations by
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The Sourdough Posts: Sister, Sister
“Sister, Sister” has its roots in my childhood: one of the books we had to read was an old collection of my mother’s, called Norwegian Folk Tales. I suspect it was an old book when Mum first got it as a kid,
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The Sourdough Posts: Sourdough
This was the story that started the Sourdough and Other Stories collection, but in a strange and wandering way. At the end of my MA, I was sending off queries letters to small publishers to see if I could interest
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Aaaaaannnnd!
The lovely Belinda Jane Morris has finished her artwork inspired by my story “A Good Husband” in Sourdough and Other Stories!! I love it!
The Sourdough Posts: A Porcelain Soul
“Poupée c 1870” by Photo: Andreas Praefcke – Self-photographed. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poup%C3%A9e_c_1870.jpg#/media/File:Poup%C3%A9e_c_1870.jpg
While reading for my MA I came across a piece by Rainer Maria Rilke called “Some Reflections on Dolls”, and it
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The Sourdough Posts: Lost Things
Rackham’s Sweet Roland
“Lost Things” is one of my personal favourites in the Sourdough collection, I think possibly because there’s a genuine comedic turn to it. It’s black comedy, to be sure, but I love Jez and
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The Sourdough Posts: The Story of Ink
Kathleen’s drawing from Bitterwood’s “Spells for Coming Forth by Daylight” – works well here too.
“The Story of Ink” follows on from “Ash” in that it traces
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