http://www.windmill-books.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:17:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's the weekend and spring is in the air, so here's our selection of bookish and not-so-bookish marvels from our ranges across the internets this week. The people at Ikea have made the world's longest outdoor bookcase on Bondi Beach, Sydney. If you can bring yourself to see how tanned everyone ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/03/windmills-friday-feeling-6/ Tim Pears' new novel Landed is out now, and to mark the release we're offering you the chance to win one of three copies of this already critically acclaimed book. We'll even chuck in one of our lovely Windmill Books notepads and a set of bookish postcards. All you have ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/03/landed-by-tim-pears/ Ever wondered how to make your friends fail at simple arithmetic? Or how to passify a violent criminal in a high security prison? Kevin Dutton, author of Flipnosis, shows you this and much more in his radio show 'Extreme Persuasion'. Listen to it on the BBC iplayer here Flipnosis is published ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/03/flipnosis-by-kevin-dutton/ Mike Thomas, author of Pocket Notebook, talks about the experience of doing a Masters in Creative Writing in the University of Glamorgan's magazine Glamlife. Mike is the latest success in a course that has taught writers as diverse as Dan Rhodes and Maria McCann, and is headed up by Philip Gross, this ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/03/mike-thomas-on-a-writers-life/ Welcome one and all to this week's Friday Feeling, easing you into the weekend with cultural tid-bits and bookish distractions that have been entertaining us this week. We've had bookish CD cases, now here's how the internet would look as vintage covers. One of the challenges of being a freelance writer (or ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/02/windmills-friday-feeling-5/ The story of Heather Brooke, the journalist who broke the expenses scandal, has been dramatised for a BBC 4 drama, 'On Expenses'. Watch it on BBC iPlayer. The Silent State is published in April. Preorder it here. 'Anyone with a vote worth stealing should read this. You won’t know whether to laugh ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/02/heather-brooke-drama-on-expenses-on-bbc-4/ Do we believe in coincidences? I was all set to write a Turbine Blog post for the lovely people at Windmill about a familial coincidence I uncovered whilst researching the true murder case which features in my novel, The Finest Type of English Womanhood, but now, to be frank, I'm ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/02/spontaneous-coincidences/ Helping you through the other long, dark, tea time of the soul, it's this week's Friday Feeling! We've already had totally stylish bookshelves, now here we have some weird and wonderful ways to reuse your old books. The book ball is neat, the book 'scrapbook' looks like a flower has been ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/02/windmills-friday-feeling-4/ Pocket Notebook is published today, and to mark the release I have five copies of the book for YOU to win. Pocket Notebook is the debut novel from serving police officer Mike Thomas. An angry black comedy, it follows PC Jacob Smith, tactical firearms officer, steroid abuser and gun obsessive, and ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/02/pocket-notebook-giveaway/ What was it like to write Pocket Notebook? This is something I'm asked with increasing regularity, certainly by colleagues in my 'real' job as a serving police officer, colleagues who now look at me - the publication date fast approaching - with a curious mix of wonder, bemusement and no little ... http://www.windmill-books.co.uk/index.php/2010/02/good-copmad-cop/