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Why did I want to write a musical about Beethoven? A man who still speaks to us, after nearly 250 years.

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You can now listen to the piano scores for the show's musical pieces - go to \"Piano\" on the site.

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Our LvanB Road to Joy has made huge strides towards the next step - a professional workshop. Follow the story on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581241869715.

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Here is part of the musical's Act 2 opening song: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Q3SmNpWLY/

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You can now follow the development of this new musical at Facebook

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“William the Bastard”, he thought, looking out through the bleak countryside around Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, to the cold bleakness of La Manche and its threatening storms.

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(A work-in-progress. Begun 25/11/24)

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Little is known about Sardarji Harkishen Singh, other than that he left the Punjab at the time of what he called The Troubles. He eventually found himself in Akkithimmanahalli, where he met a young Ranganathan Rao.

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While we’re having to pause our Beethoven musical as we solicit independent views, I need to get on with writing.

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It’s only four years after the end of World War 2, during which there were no great cricket matches. But now things are getting back to normal: the Australians have thrashed the Poms in England (which is always, and wil...

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This is what an English dictionary should be.

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'A ‘prose poem’ which is poetic about something as ordinary (or common) as building a life – marriage, birth, death, livelihood. The style is gentle and poetic, and the story is, at the same time, humorous and sad, touc...

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It’s Jess’s thirteenth birthday. She’s been in bed for nearly a year, the result of a car accident that killed her father.

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Some things are hidden in the night, but not to everyone, because it's not only eyes that can see.

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Lissie Pendle is about trouble. But not trouble with a capital T. It's trouble which just...well, it just happens. Usually with the help of her little brother, or Scratcher and his friends, or just....things.

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This was my first book, inspired by a story told to me by a friend: He and a bunch of other country kids spent a day trying to capture rabbits. I elaborated shamelessly to the horse in his original story, adding nets, sm...

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