Shackles, The Boss Comes to the Manchester Fringe Festival
‘SHACKLES, THE BOSS', a play by author, Andy Dickinson brings to life Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917. MANCHESTER FRINGE FESTIVAL KINGS ARMS STUDIO 27th,...
View ArticleManchester Fringe Festival Review: Shackles, The Boss
Knowing Andy Dickinson as a novelist, I wasn’t surprised that his talent for engrossing, hilarious dialogue captivated the audience of the King’s Arms studio. I defy any actor or wordsmith to enthral...
View ArticleKarl Ove Knausgaard Reads in Manchester
Kar Love stands to read, rocking side to side like a mantis. He reads like the words aren't his, the translation a rough outline of something he felt dearly when alone, at home, on another continent,...
View ArticleA Snippet: Mr Busby’s Porcelain Marbles
Before changing into his work suit, he knocked his mother’s bedroom door and poked his head in, demonstrating his fresh haircut. Mrs Busby was awake, uninterested in the top of bristly scalps today....
View ArticleDear Mr Busby Snippet: Rupie Discovers Music
Rupie had barely known music, a banned substance like alcohol in the house, which his father had taken to the attic to imbibe. Its recreational use was clearly a dangerous thing: he managed to connect...
View ArticleDear Mr Busby Snippet: His Father’s Light
He had an aversion to his father’s eyes, the icy steel therein that didn’t belong to his gentile warmth. His dad was ten feet tall and he’d observed how others saw him that way, too. But he wasn’t the...
View ArticleBusby Journals 01: Writing and the Loading Phase
A few months back I read a collection of Steinbeck’s letters. The gist of it was an exercise given to him by his editor at the time as he prepared to write ‘East of Eden’. His editor provided him with...
View ArticleBusby Journals 02: Circling the Basket
The book, it progresses. It is now at a point where, were it demanded tomorrow, it could exist without the ending that I’ve to tweak. The characters are alive, their training wheels are off and they’re...
View ArticleBusby Journals 03: Two Steps Back Editing
Have looped back on myself, working the two steps back after one forwards approach. The problem with momentum is that it can become another kind of complacency. If this was On The Road, typing not...
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