Flaming Nora

I've been writing Coronation Street weekly updates since 1995 and this week's Coronation Street update has just gone live here This week in Corrie, Wendy Crozier returned.

My brother's involved in the local Am Dram theatre and this week I went along to see him in a play that's currently on there. As the Entertainments Editor of our local newspaper couldn't get there to review it, my review took centre stage in tonight's Sunderland Echo.  You can read it online here if you'd like .

Got through a load of books on my holidays in Portugal.  And when I say books, I mean books, with pages and covers - not those Kindle things. Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving While I'd been aware of, and had seen the cult film, I had no idea this was a novel and first in a trilogy too. Shame on me. It's been reissued as it's been over 50 years since the novel was first released and while some of the language seems dated, of course, the story of working-class boy meets girl in the 1950s remains as strong as ever.  Highly recommended. 10/10. Jonathan Harvey - All She Wants The debut novel of one of my favourite Coronation Street writers.  It was good, funny, and had me laughing out loud, which is always good in a comedy book.  A good one. 8/10.   Pauline Black - Black by Design (autobiography) Singer with The Selecter and one of the strong females in bands I grew up watching on telly and admiring.  Not only is the book Pauline's autiobiography s...