Bernadette Brennan
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The Bookshelf
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
Although Jill Rose spent over 10 years writing the Franklin biography and the archivist said to me the other day, oh, you'll be in here for five years.
The Bookshelf
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
I'm saying, well, I hope not.
The Bookshelf
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
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The Bookshelf
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
And I did hear a fine biographer once say, all biographies should take no more than three years, 18 months of research, 18 months of writing, because otherwise you lose the passion.
The Bookshelf
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
And I think there's something in that, the energy and the passion of the discovery.
The Bookshelf
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
So we shall see how I go.
The Bookshelf
On Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, Jenny Ackland's Little Gods, Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma and David Peace's Patient X.
That's great advice.