BY ED CHURCH (JANUARY 2025) If the past is “a foreign country”, as L.P. Hartley once wrote, then the advent of mobile phones is its hard border. I’m always glad I got 25 years on the pre-mobile side of that dividing line. Glad I got to experience things like school, university, and travel, before we […]
RECOLLECTIONS MAY VARY
BY ED CHURCH (OCTOBER 2024) Death, taxes, and Hollywood war films portraying the Brits as pompous idiots. Some things in life you can be sure of… Recently, the Apple TV series “Masters of the Air” continued the longstanding tradition. In fact, it may even have taken it to new levels. In an East Anglian pub, […]
THESE STORIES I’VE HEARD…
BY ED CHURCH (August 2021) Wherever possible, I try to give my characters distinct voices. To describe some accent or verbal trait, then write dialogue that brings it out. I like to think it makes the characters more real, lifting them from the page and into the senses. And, now that I have belatedly started […]