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Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.

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  • The Master and Margarita

    Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 22:01 in book review, russia, stalin, magic realism, bulgakov

    When God created light, the first shadow was born – tagline to the film Shadow Builder   This is a very long review so for those of you reading this in your lunch hour let me cut to the chase. The Master and Margarita can be reaso...

  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 00:00 in russia, solzhenitsyn, denisovich

      History must be written of, by and for the survivors. – Anonymous Do you remember the first book you ever bought? I don't mean the first book you ever read but the first one for which you parted with cash you had earned? I do. I...