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David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks
I was keen to read David Mitchell’s new novel because I loved Cloud Atlas. Like that masterpiece, The Bone Clocks comprises six novella-length sections each narrated by a different character in a different time period. But these narratives are closer … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, novel, pastiche, The Bone Clocks
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Cycling Back to the South Pacific
One thing I always intended to blog about was my field research for Deep Time. I’ve done a post about the trip to Gabon, but not yet about the one to New Caledonia – and now I’m about to return … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Travel
Tagged Cretaceous, cycling, Deep Time, flora, New Caledonia, novel, prehistoric, trees
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Review of Deep Time – by Adam Randall
Reblogged from Trusty Water Blog Deep Time tells the story of an African expedition led by cryptzoologist Brendan Merlie who is hoping to find some evidence that certain extinct species might still be living deep in the jungle. You may … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, characters, Deep Time, novel, science, violence
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Speaking Stones
At the opening of the current Fringe Arts Bath exhibition at 8/9 New Bond Street Place, Bath, I saw – and heard – Alun Ward’s new sound installation, Sea Hear. It sparked in my mind a set of associations about … Continue reading
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Tagged Alun Ward, beach, Bible, Deep Time, Folk Tales, Fringe Arts Bath, geology, Gloucestershire Ghost Tales, History Press, Hugh Lupton, Kirsty Hartsiotis, landscape, memory, novel, pebble, rock, sea, Sea Hear, Seneca, short story, sound art, sound installation, spirit, stone, story, Storystone
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Deep Time, Deep Love – by Kevan Manwaring
Originally posted on The Bardic Academic:
Saturday 9th May: Deep Time launch, Stroud Saturday saw the culmination of a lifetime’s obsession – the publication of my friend Anthony Nanson’s first novel, Deep Time. This 300 thousand plus word magnum opus Nanson…
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Tagged Anthony Nanson, Deep Time, Hawthorn Pres, Kevan Manwaring, novel, Stroud, The Lost World
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Deep Time and Ecozoa Launch in Bath on 21 May
Helen Moore and I will be at Waterstones Bath on Thursday 21 May to celebrate the publication of our new books: Helen’s acclaimed poetry collection, ECOZOA, and my novel of prehistory, Deep Time. There will be introductions by Richard Kerridge, … Continue reading
The Origin of ‘Deep Time’
I first came across the phrase ‘deep time’ in a pair of books I copy-edited for the Geological Society in 1998. I realised at once that Deep Time had to be the title of the novel I’d recently started writing. … Continue reading
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Tagged age of the earth, Charles Lyell, Deep Time, earth, ecological crisis, ecosystem, geology, James Hutton, John McPhee, novel, strata
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Welcome to Deep Time
‘Deep time’ is geological time, the millions of years over which the Earth and its creatures have evolved. Deep Time is also the name of my epic novel of prehistory, to be published by Hawthorn Press on 9 May. The … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, Central Africa, Deep Time, Ecology, folklore, Gabon, hotspot, Mythology, New Caledonia, novel, prehistoric, Prehistory, refugium, storyteller, wildness, zoologist
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