by Ian Andrew | Feb 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Thoughts on a night out – when you could still have one… I was going to write a review for the theatre ticketing website as an exercise in writing – just to keep me from going rusty – but the theatre has closed for the foreseeable – so I...
by Ian Andrew | Jul 30, 2019 | Books, Face Value, Fiction, Independent Publishing, Indy Authors
I’m delighted to announce that the first of the Wright & Tran Novels, “Face Value” has just been announced as the winner of the Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize for 2017.The BookLife Prize is an annual writing contest sponsored by BookLife,...
by Ian Andrew | Aug 11, 2018 | Books, Fiction, Reviews, United Kingdom
The latest book review from Views From The Ridge. Mark Fryday is a UK (Cambridgeshire) based author who originally hailed from the North East of England. His first novel, Collapse of the Wave (Tales from The Red Lion Book 1) was, at first glance, a simple story of a...
by Ian Andrew | Feb 20, 2018 | Music Albums, Non-Fiction, Northern Ireland, SLF, Stiff Little Fingers
On 29 March 2017 Stiff Little Fingers arrived in Perth, Western Australia to play their first, stand-alone gig in the town. On the same evening, I had to fly out to the UK in preparation for the London Book Fair. I was ‘gutted’… I’d been a fan...
by Ian Andrew | Jan 21, 2017 | Australia, Books, Fiction, Reviews, United Kingdom
Aliya Whiteley is an award-winning British author with an extensive catalogue of novels, short stories and non-fiction articles to her name. As well as being incredibly prolific, she was also kind enough to read over the early chapters of my own first novel and give...
