Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
As all writers know, Time makes its own rules and quite often doesn’t adhere to them, Time is able to ridicule humanity, make fun of the way it plans and schemes and then sees it comes crashing down, a heartbeat missed, a skip in the fabric of time, and suddenly, as Pink Floyd rightly sang, “Ten years have got behind you.”
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The investigative newspaper journalist is almost an extinct animal, hunted down by television and left to rot by a public who would rather arguably leave some things alone, if they don’t know about it then the world is safe, it is not a scary and rotten place in which to bring up their children.
The world though is teetering upon the edge of an abyss and it takes the calm and collected measure of newspaper journalists to cut through the Hollywood glitz that television offers to really get to the point of the investigation. The camera at times only adds to the sensationalism, the written word will always carry much more weight and respect.
Merseyside authors including Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Tim Quinn, Jane Costello, David Ebsworth, Jude Lennon, and Rory O’Keefe will be taking part in a new Festival which aims to get the Merseyside community writing.
The event, led by Waterloo-based bookshop Write Blend, includes a free children’s competition offering a chance for the winner’s story to be illustrated by local artist Holly Bushnell, framed and displayed in the bookshop and read out on television and radio.