Book Club Guidefor 140x140

 

1.       DO you have a favourite story in the collection? WHY do you like this one particularly?

2.       Can you pinpoint stories that address the following in themes: peer pressure, cost of living crisis, nature, climate change, w ar, peace, the uncanny.

3.       Cn you identify stories with   the following features: colour, seasons, weather, urban life, rural life, sport?

4.       Find  one story and identify a story structure: inciting incident, growing compilations, crisis point, climax resolution

5.       In flash fiction the author has to build characters fast. Find a character you like in one of the stories: how has the writer built this character?

6.       Tell your own story: take two characters from two different stories, put them together and see what happens.

7.       How does the author create a sense of time and place in these stories?

8.       Many writers write with the senses. Cn you find a story where this is obvious?

9.       Open the bookk  randomly read the story on the left page. What do you think was the picture that inspired this story?

10.   can you suggest another way that a writer might put together  a collection like  this from  a daily prompt Where might they find that prompt?

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news 3 april 20226

 

I'm pleased to say I am recovering well from my stroke. I am now cooking and ironing am fit   to drive have been out a couple of times on my own- but not driving- I still don't feel ready for that.

Writing news

I'v e been able to do a little of my own writing though typing I s till difficult.  Most people are verry understanding an forgive typoshbu on r  of our authors did reply recently 'Does that explainrth incredible number of typos? 'which I thought was unnecessarily mean.

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On My Blog

 

I hsv an interview with penny Rogers about thebook we've published recently Amelie at the Windowhttps://www.gilljameswriter.com/2026/03/interview-with-penny-rogers-about-her.html

The Young Person’s Library 

 

We've add The Sprucethi monthhttps://www.theyoungpersonslibrary.co.uk/2026/03/the-spruce-by-jeanne-davies.html

=- a picture book for readers of all age.

 

Recommended read 

 

 

This month I've chosen The Florence Girsl Princess by Tessa Harris. FIndd Your copy here:https://amzn.to/4mc9nvg 

 Note thei i an affliatr link and a smll proportion of whatht you pay will go to bridge House at no extra cost to you

 

 

Giveaway  

Thi dmon ti'm gicin awy Babel, the second part of the Peace Child d series, following on from last month's giveaway

 

abel is the second part of the Peace Child trilogy. Kaleem has found his father and soon finds the love of his life, Rozia Laurence, but he is still not comfortable with his role as Peace Child. He also has to face some of the less palatable truths about his home planet: it is blighted by the existence of the Z Zone, a place where poorer people live outside of society, and by switch-off, compulsory euthanasia for a healthy but aging population, including his mentor, Razjosh. The Babel Tower still haunts him, but it begins to make sense as he uncovers more of the truth about his past and how it is connected with the problems in the Z Zone. Kaleem knows he can and must make a difference, but at what personal cost?

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