Juxtabook Review of Isaac Steward

 A wonderful review in over Christmas ....

 

"A real neo-modernist triumph and in a nihilistic world is definitely worth your time and patience."


"The dense richness of this Michelin starred linguistic meal is such that I struggled to deal with it over the first chapters. Once I stopped trying to consume it greedily and treated it as a tasting menu, small courses, one at a time, then I enjoyed it immensely."

Read the full review here.

Xmas Fun: Quess the Theme Tunes

What Xmas is complete without the Doctor Who Xmas Special!  I've swapped the audio on the trailers below - anybody guess from what TV shows they comes from? 

Radiolab Interview

Had a great time in the studios of Luton's radio station radiolab this morning.  Here's the interview that went out live through the snow ...

A big thanks to Luke Middleton for inviting me in and interviewing me.

Shanta Everington Interviews Me

The wonderful Shanta Everington has an interview with me up on her blog at the moment ...

Mike: The rubber cover is so you can read the novel in the shower – have you tried that yet?

Shanta: Er no! Moving swiftly on... so what's next for Mike French?

To read the full interview click here.




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First UK Amazon Review In

A wonderful first review up on the UK Amazon site for The Ascent of Isaac Steward from Shanta Everington author of Marilyn and Me.

"Poignant and painful, there are many beautifully written, tender scenes in this tragic tale. Accompanying Isaac on his emotional journey which 'ends' with as many unanswered questions as it 'begins', left me exhausted and wrung out, as I had come to care deeply about what happened to him."


Read the full review here.

A Writer's Guide to Blogging Guest Post

I have a guest post up at the virtual advent calendar for the Get Writing 2012 Conference.  Here's a teaser ...

Publishing has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most writers are unhappy for pretty much all of the time. This is largely because they don’t get invited to parties and nobody reads their books.

Secondly: many writers have been increasingly of the opinion that they’ve all made a big mistake in writing novels in the first place. And some say that even writing short stories and writing their names on the back of their shirts was a bad move and they should never have picked up a pen and so on and so forth.

Read the full article here.

I'll be running said workshop on the day as well as being on a panel in the morning called Changing faces – Non-fiction in the Modern Marketplace where I'll be joining Adrian Magson, David Lindo and Marc Aplin. The whole day promises to be a bit special and I'm really looking forward to it.

Get Writing 2012 is brought to you by Verulam Writers’ Circle in association with University of Hertfordshire. The event will be held on Saturday 11 February 2012 at the De Havilland Campus in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. For full details, visit the website.

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"Moving and lyrical, original and hypnotic—Mike French’s The Ascent of Isaac Steward is a remarkable debut novel”
MICHAEL KIMBALL, Dear Everybody

Just in time for Christmas !

And if you want a bit of fun see The View From Here's take on Kindle books here.