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  • Not the sort of Wagner you see on X Factor

    Not the sort of Wagner you see on X Factor

    26th October 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    Every Saturday night during the X Factor season, my teenage daughter and I used to sit glued to the latest dizzying instalment. Forget Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor has the lot – glamour, drama, dazzling white teeth (apparently Simon Cowell always insists the young hopefuls get their gnashers whitened), rival judges at each other’s throats and crazy choreography.

    But now my daughter’s gone to university it just isn’t the same any...

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  • My top ten books of the year

    My top ten books of the year

    15th December 2009 | 2 comments | 2 people like this

    Newspapers are busy filling their pages with their top tens of the year. 2009 has been a vintage year for fiction so here are a few of my Christmas must-reads.  High-brow, low-brow, you name it, it’s an eclectic list. In no particular order (as they say on The X-Factor), my favourites include:

    1: I've bought Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury, £7.99) for almost everyone I know. An ambitious, epic novel, it...

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  • The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

    The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

    29th October 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    Every Saturday night my teenage daughter Lottie and I sit glued to the latest dizzying instalment of The X Factor. Forget has-been Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor has got the lot – glamour, drama, dazzling white teeth (apparently Simon Cowell insists all the young hopefuls get their gnashers whitened), rival judges at each other’s throats, even back flips.
    It’s not quite as nail-biting as last year though when we...

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  • The Rise and Shine Saturday Show

    The Rise and Shine Saturday Show

    4th August 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    With a day job as a journalist and a second string as a novelist, it had never crossed my mind in a million years to write a children’s book. But out of the blue, after devouring everything by authors like Jacqueline Wilson, Meg Cabot and Celia Rees, my daughter complained she didn’t have anything to read. “Why don’t you write a book for me?” she asked. I’d only written books...

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Emma Lee-Potter

Emma Lee-Potter

Emma Lee-Potter is a journalist and author of four novels. She has two teenage children and spends her spare time worrying about the ramshackle farmhouse she bought in the south of France. The wreck has half a roof, assorted wildlife and an alarming damp problem but her friends assure her it all be perfect by 2020. She writes a weekly blog for Easy Living magazine.

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