White Threshold

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Writing etc.

Friday, 1 September 2017

Thinking Up Novels in the Bath

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Mozart got his ideas while playing billiards, Lawrence Sterne while shaving.Luis Buñuel liked to sit on his own in a quiet bar sipping a d...
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Sunday, 27 August 2017

August Blues / Wheel of Books

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Every year I get the August blues. August is the time when I have most freedom, and I always hope to use that to get some writing done. In...
Saturday, 12 July 2014

Compton Mackenzie: Carnival

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Jenny Pearl, born Jenny Raeburn, is a dancer on the stage. She is beautiful and talented, but otherwise a rather ordinary girl, sharp-tong...
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Sunday, 4 May 2014

Richard Beard: Damascus

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It is the first of November 1993, a significant date in Britain's history: we have just become part of the European Union. On this day,...
Saturday, 22 March 2014

Hope Mirrlees: Lud-in-the-Mist

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Lud-in-the-Mist is the capital of the free state of Dorimare, "scattered about the banks of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl...
Thursday, 2 January 2014

Robert Aickman: Cold Hand in Mine

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The book that has prompted the revival of this blog is a collection of short stories called Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman. I f...
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White Threshold Reopens

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In my last posting, in March 2012, I announced the temporary closure of White Threshold and hinted that I might have some exciting news soon...
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Matthew Francis
Poet, novelist, short-story writer. Reader in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. I live in Ceredigion on the west coast of Wales with my wife, Creina.
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