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• Happy Family book launch: James Ellis in conversation with Germaine Kiecke – Saturday April 25th

  By James Ellis on March 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I am very excited. The London launch of Happy Family will be on Saturday, 25 April at the brilliant independent bookshop, Nomad Books. It will start at 18.45. The reason I’m so excited is because as part of the launch I am going to… Read More ›

• Happy Family Blog Tour

  By James Ellis on February 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

• Don’t rush a good thing

  By James Ellis on February 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Watch out, many of the baby boomers’ final cohort will be turning 60 this year – those born in the satisfyingly neat year of 1960 (it is so easy to work out how old one is, when there’s a zero… Read More ›

• The shape of something

  By James Ellis on January 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I have an idea, elusive and shadowy, but definitely there. The shape of something. The right something. It needs to be pushed and prodded (gently), given substance by being handled. Coaxed into the light so I can see it more… Read More ›

• Happy Family is being serialised

  By James Ellis on October 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As part of its pre-launch marketing process, Unbound have arranged for Happy Family to be serialised on The Pigeonhole. This is a great way to get reviews and build a buzz before its publication early next year. You can check it out and… Read More ›

• An Other’s Look has another title

  By James Ellis on September 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  After much discussion the working title of my second novel, An Other’s Look, has been changed to Happy Family. I love this title because it works at so many different levels. The book is scheduled for release in early 2020… Read More ›

• Exploring the real world… volunteers

  By James Ellis on January 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  January, 2019 It’s that time of year. Our Christmas tree is lopsided and the fairy’s fallen off. The decorations are pulling paint off the walls, our pots and pans are charred and ruined, black bags are filled with body parts,… Read More ›

• Exploring the real world… Goldilocks pubs

  By James Ellis on January 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  February, 2019 According to a recent census there are almost 10,000 people living in the parish of Bradford on Avon (north and south wards). More than 80% are 18-years-old or older which means there are roughly 8,000 adults living in… Read More ›

• Exploring the real world… a Christmas Carol

  By James Ellis on December 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  December, 2018 Bah! That’s what I used to say to Christmas. Humbug! An annual mugging of my hard-earned moolah. Decorations? Boughs of holly? Spare me the jingly bells and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I was a writer, jaded… Read More ›

• Exploring the real world… the canal

  By James Ellis on December 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  November, 2018 In 1794 the first sod of the Kennet and Avon Canal was cut in Bradford on Avon. What interests me about that moment is the phrase, ‘first sod’. Every description of that inaugural digging uses those words. Not… Read More ›