• Best reads of 2022

    09 January 2023

    So, now that the dust has settled on 2022, here's my reading round-up for the year. (I meant to do this last week, but kept forgetting!)

     

    In total I read 47 books (although I'm still ploughing...

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  • Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo

    08 January 2023

    Over the Christmas holidays, the Shan clan went on a day trip to Dublin, partly to visit Funderland, but mainly to go to Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo. Mrs Shan had wanted to go to this for quite a few...

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  • Zero time - part 1

    07 January 2023

    A hugely talented fan of my books, called ZERO, drew a series of sketches based on scenes in Cirque Du Freak, and I'm delighted to share the first four of them, all of which relate to the first...

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  • First bookshelfies of 2023

    06 January 2023

    It's my first bookshelves post of 2023 -- hurrah!!!

     

    BORIS likes to stack his Shan collection horizontally (I know some bibliophiles find this notion heretical, but I stack some of MY collection...

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  • Lo Graham - scream queen

    05 January 2023

    Whatever one's opinions about the Cirque Du Freak movie, released back in 2009, there's no denying it had one heck of a talented, well-established cast of HUGE cinema and TV stars -- John C Reilly,...

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  • No laughing matter?!?

    04 January 2023

    This is a bit of an odd one! There was an article on Screen Rant a while back, about vampire movies, which included the Cirque Du Freak film among its list of included titles -- nothing strange...

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