Apologies for the unavailability of the blog for past several days. The ACHUKA server was apparently becoming overloaded and the highest traffic area of the site had to be temporarily disabled to maintain stability of the rest of the ACHUKA site. I am happy to report that the whole site has now been reinstated on a new more powerful server. …
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The national fig roll crisis: how will we cope?
http://www.achuka.co.uk/achockablog/archives/2008/04/the-national-fi.htmlFig Roll Shortage I'm very partial to a fig roll or two - indeed, I survived many a weekend as a university student on a packet of rig rolls, a loaf of bread and some peanut butter - so this article caught my eye. …
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Stephen Brook on the weekend newspaper market | Media | The Guardian
http://www.achuka.co.uk/achockablog/archives/2008/04/stephen-brook-o.htmlNew FT launch From the photography point of view I'm looking forward to the new FT Weekend format to be launched this Saturday: The larger-format magazine will slash the word count of its stories and let the pictures speak for themselves. "It is quite a bold statement for us to say that we are going to plunge into photojournalism," says Barber. …
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Chris Priestley
http://chrispriestley.blogspot.comAchockablog Achuka Arts & Letters Daily Book Trust Cynsations Drawn & Quarterly Haunted TV Invisible Man Judith Weik Photographs Law Ltd McSweeny's Quarterly Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean Neil Gaiman's Journal Reading Zone
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David Belbin
http://www.davidbelbin.comhad a new path laid which takes you through our garden to the allotment behind it. Sorry, not much of a post this, and I've started work on a new book today so updates will be even less frequent. Are you still here? OK, then, why not head over to this reactivated children's books blog or, if you're musically inclined and bittorrent proficient, register at this relaunched recordings of indeterminate origin downloads site. Enjoy.
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Poetry Now | Links and such
http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=56, brilliant btw, reviews Neil Gaiman’s new book. Not to be read by us normal folk for a few more months. On reviews, the-girl-who’s-afraid-of-foxes looks at Miranda July’s No one belongs here more than you. Achokablog talks to Anthony Horowitz for the UK Herald. Stereotyping recommends: Rice-Boy. Go have a read. Two from Una - The (5th) Dublin Gay Theatre Festival launched last night (missed it for work). Programme is going on the site
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Poetry Now | Links and such
http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=56, brilliant btw, reviews Neil Gaiman’s new book. Not to be read by us normal folk for a few more months. On reviews, the-girl-who’s-afraid-of-foxes looks at Miranda July’s No one belongs here more than you. Achokablog talks to Anthony Horowitz for the UK Herald. Stereotyping recommends: Rice-Boy. Go have a read. Two from Una - The (5th) Dublin Gay Theatre Festival launched last night (missed it for work). Programme is going on the site
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Cynsational News & Links
http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/2008/03/cynsational-...HarperCollins, will begin publishing YA this spring. They plan to publish 10 titles a year." Source: Children's Book Biz News. Meg Rosoff, Eoin Colfer, Melvin Burgess and Jonathan Stroud introduce Puffin's finest classics... from Times Online. Source: Achockablog. Update from Blooming Tree Press from Miriam Hees at A Publisher's Life. Note: New successes, new imprints, a new award ("The Bloom Award") for unpublished writers! Congratulations, Blooming Tree! Read a Cynsations
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New Puffin Classics.
http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/2008/..., Meg Rosoff wrote about Black Beauty, Eoin Colfer wrote about Treasure Island and Jonathan Stroud wrote about Just So Stories. I'm a huge sucker for nice, new clean copies, not to mention matching sets. I want 'em. (via Achockablog)
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The Ultimate Book Guide
http://theultimatebookguide.blogspot.comNicola Morgan's blog Achuka
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The Night Man
http://ghostsandmemories1.blogspot.comAchockablog The Agony Column
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A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition
http://fusenumber8.blogspot.comThanks to Achocka blog for the link.
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My Readable Feast
http://www.myreadablefeast.comBook Blogs A Chair, A Fireplace and A Tea Cozy ACHOCKABLOG Big A little a Blog from the Windowsill Book Buds Kidlit Reviews Book Moot BookLust BookReview.com Chicken Spaghetti Cybils HipWriterMama In the Pages…. Jen Robinson’s Book Page Just One More Book!!
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