• September competition winners

    15 September 2020

    According to Wikipedia, the number 254 is an even number... a composite number with four divisors... a semi-prime number... a square-free integer... a number nontotient... the maximum number of...

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  • September competition - final chance to enter

    14 September 2020

    This is your final chance to enter the September Shanville Monthly competition. The window for entries closes at 11.59pm UK time tonight, Monday 14th September, and I'll be drawing the seven lucky...

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  • Courtown

    13 September 2020

    During our staycation in Carlow last month, the Shan clan went on a day trip to Courtown in Wexford, primarily to visit a beach. It was a warmer day than the clouds in some of the photos suggest --...

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  • Harkat plushy

    12 September 2020

    Isn't this just the cutest thing ever?!? A little Harkat Mulds plushy, made by a fan called Frances. She's replaced Harkat's normal mask with a Covid-combating mask, and look!! It's detachable, so...

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  • Dark Blood

    11 September 2020

    I spotted a couple of articles recently about a young, first-time novelist in Wigan called Taylor Walker, who has cited a meeting with me as a turning point in her path to publication, which was...

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  • Fowl flicks!

    10 September 2020

    In the wake of the Artemis Fowl film flop, plenty of journos were quick to flag up other YA book-series -to-movie adaptations that had fallen at the first or second hurdle, and naturally the Cirque...

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