Tag Archives: love

The Carnegie Feeling

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Joanna Nadin

I have never been one of life’s winners when it comes to sport, barely even scraping third in the 1979 St Mary’s Primary sports day yoghurt-pot-and-umbrella race (actual race, involving running wildly around the field with an empty Ski pot … Continue reading →

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Stay gold, Ponyboy

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Joanna Nadin

There’s something almost alchemical about the moment a hard copy of your book is finally pressed into your hot hands. A strange kind of magic that has turned the base material – people and plot and places – that has … Continue reading →

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Everybody Hurts – a story of love (and ping pong)

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Joanna Nadin

It began, as so many great love stories do, with an argument. This time, however, there was no prom, or even eyes meeting across a bar; rather boy (Anthony McGowan) met girl (me) on Meg Rosoff’s blog, shouting about Jane … Continue reading →

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