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Read an extract of DARKER ENDS here, from a chapter called THE HALL OF ROCKS
Maggie leaned back against the pillar behind her. The cavern they found themselves in was immense, larger than any building Maggie and Rory had ever seen. This was St. Paul’s Cathedral or Notre Dame, but buried under the earth, chiselled from rock. They were far away now from the elements and the blizzard which raged…
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DRAMA AND MAYHEM
While the wind wails outside my window – it’s June in Scotland – I’ve put the final full-stop on the first draft of DARKER ENDS for my publisher Fledgling Press. It’s set in Glencoe so the howling gales are appropriate, I suppose. Now I’ve started on my fourth novel. When I met with Clare at…
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MEETING INSPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE
It looks like I’m making them work really hard!!! Met some really inspiring young people at the NLS yesterday during another day of workshops. Some of them had even read WUTHERING HEIGHTS – and they were only P7! Dead impressive and full of ideas. That’s the pupils of Parson’s Green and East Craigs Primary Schools…
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GAME OF CROWNS
This is where I was today, at the National Library in Edinburgh – I was there to scare the living daylights out of the pupils of Gourock Primary School with spooky readings from Shiver (Floris Books), haunting cries and howling winds (and that was just me). Afterwards, we even had time to tour the Jacobites exhibition…
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
ALEX NYE IS BACK!!! (That makes me sound like Batman!) DARKER ENDS is on its way! To get to the point, I’ve just signed a contract with Fledgling Press for my third book! I met Clare at the National Library where I’ve been giving workshops on the Jacobites.She said I would recognize her as she…
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JACOBITES: GHOSTS OF THE PAST
I have loved going along to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh and delivering these workshops. Thanks to all of the primary schools who came along and took part, and thanks also to the Moray House students – teachers of the future! I hope you found some of the material inspirational. The pupils were…
Alex Nye 