Me – and some famous people too! -Chipping Norton Literary Festival
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CLAN David P Elliot Events
Me – and some famous people too! -Chipping Norton Literary Festival
What does Chipping Norton mean to you, a beautiful Cotswold town? The Murdochs? Our PM riding Rebekah Brooks horse to her latest slumber party? Jeremy Clarkson speeding through the town in super-cars? To me it means the Chipping Norton Literary Festival the first of which takes place in various locations in the town between the [...]
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Red Cap’s Heart with Whisky Sauce
Those of you who have read my novel ‘Clan’ will know that the book features a particularly unpleasant little creature called ‘Robin Red Cap’. Red Caps are traditional Scottish creatures who inhabit haunted places and typically kill their victims by rolling rocks down onto them or ripping them apart with vicious claws! Their name comes [...]
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25 Free signed Copies of ‘CLAN’
We are giving away 25 copies of ‘CLAN’ on a first come, first served basis. You will, however, have to pay postage and packing based on the delivery location. £2.30 for the UK, £3.50 for Europe and £5.50 for the Rest of the World. To claim one of these copies simply send me an email [...]
CLAN Reviews of CLAN
A Great Review of ‘Clan’
Reviews are always great to have – but this one brought tears to my eyes. Thanks to Daystar!
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New You Tube Video – Clan – Author’s Foreword narrated
A new You Tube video featuring the author narrating the Author’s Foreword of ‘Clan’ by David P Elliot is now available to listen to free on You Tube. You can view and listen to the video here – the book is available in paperback, audio (CD and download) and in all e-book formats including Kindle [...]
CLAN David P Elliot Events
Me – and some famous people too! -Chipping Norton Literary Festival
What does Chipping Norton mean to you, a beautiful Cotswold town? The Murdochs? Our PM riding Rebekah Brooks horse to her latest slumber party? Jeremy Clarkson speeding through the town in super-cars? To me it means the Chipping Norton Literary Festival the first of which takes place in various locations in the town between the [...]
David P Elliot Grumpy Old Man
Review of – The Spirit Level
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars It took me awhile to finish this because it is not really the kind of book one reads for entertainment. It really is a more academic expose of lots of research that indicates basically [...]
CLAN David P Elliot
Red Cap’s Heart with Whisky Sauce
Those of you who have read my novel ‘Clan’ will know that the book features a particularly unpleasant little creature called ‘Robin Red Cap’. Red Caps are traditional Scottish creatures who inhabit haunted places and typically kill their victims by rolling rocks down onto them or ripping them apart with vicious claws! Their name comes [...]
CLAN David P Elliot
25 Free signed Copies of ‘CLAN’
We are giving away 25 copies of ‘CLAN’ on a first come, first served basis. You will, however, have to pay postage and packing based on the delivery location. £2.30 for the UK, £3.50 for Europe and £5.50 for the Rest of the World. To claim one of these copies simply send me an email [...]
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‘Pieces of Fate’ by David P Elliot
‘Pieces of Fate’ is now available in paperback as well as for the Kindle at Amazon in the USA. Get a copy of this great collection of short stories in the format of your choice or download individual copies of the stories to your Kindle.
CLAN David P Elliot Events
Me – and some famous people too! -Chipping Norton Literary Festival
What does Chipping Norton mean to you, a beautiful Cotswold town? The Murdochs? Our PM riding Rebekah Brooks horse to her latest slumber party? Jeremy Clarkson speeding through the town in super-cars? To me it means the Chipping Norton Literary Festival the first of which takes place in various locations in the town between the [...]
CLAN David P Elliot Events
BBC Radio Oxford Interview
I will be interviewed by broadcaster Jo Thoenes on the ‘Jo in the Afternoon’ show on Monday the 22nd August 2011 from 2.00pm GMT on 95.2 FM or you can follow it through the Internet here. The shows are also available to hear for 6 days after the event.
David P Elliot Events
The Blind Leading the partially sighted!
On the 11th of May, as part of the Lincoln Book Festival, I was one of the guest speakers for ‘New Writers’ Night’ at the lovely Drill Hall Theatre in Lincoln. It was a pleasure and very reassuring for any of us who have a real love of books and reading, to find a responsive [...]
Events
Independent Authors Book Fair – Saturday 23rd May 2009
The Authors Book Fair will run from 9.00 am – 5.00 pm on Saturday the 23rd May,, at Rickards Hall, High Street, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 5AR. Come along and talk to authors, listen to readings including hopefully some dramatised readings and get to know your authors. David P Elliot will be attending providing a reading [...]
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London Book Festival – April 20th -22nd, Earls Court, London
David Elliot will be at the Festival – contact via web site if you would like to meet up.
CLAN Reviews of CLAN
A Great Review of ‘Clan’
Reviews are always great to have – but this one brought tears to my eyes. Thanks to Daystar!
CLAN Reviews of CLAN
Latest Review of ‘Clan’
The latest review on Amazon for ‘Clan’. “A birthday present from my sister which I read in two sittings and can’t get out of my head!!.An amazing blend of History,fiction and supernatural, well written, well researched in an area of the country I was brought up in and know like the back of my hand [...]
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People say the nicest things!
Receiving fabulous comments about your writing is wonderful and for me it is a kind of exquisite torture. Of course I love receiving good reviews it cheers me up for the whole day and often for several days. But writing is mostly a solitary occupation and it is very easy to become isolated, sitting in [...]
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Another Opportunity to win a copy of ‘Clan’
After the success of the ‘Giveaway’ of 3 copies of ‘Clan’ at the Goodreads Site just before the end of the year, you can register for a second opportunity to win up until the 25th January 2011. The first review from one of the previous winners can be read here and you can register for [...]
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More Authonomy Comments on ‘Clan’
Authonomy is a web site for writers owned by the large trade publisher HarperCollins where authors can post chapters of their books and get feedback and backing from fellow authors. The more backing the book receives the higher it is rated and if it makes it into the top 5 it is automatically read by [...]