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Sunday Services The 9am Service ● Traditional in style ● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns ● Includes refreshments afterwards ● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion Lifted, the 11am Service ● Informal and relaxed in style ● An emphasis on families ● Includes music, led by a band ● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am Weekday Services Morning Prayers • Monday to Thursday at 9am Evening Prayers • Monday to Thursday at 5pm The Thursday 10am Service • Traditional in style • Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion • Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns • Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church Other Services Prayer and Praise • Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm Ash Wednesday Service • Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats email: office@stchads.org Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 14 website: www.stchads.org Tel: (0114) 274 5086
M ick Herron has published six thrillers; the most recent, Slow Horses (2010), was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, awarded to the year’s best thriller, while his novella Dolphin Junction won the Ellery Queen Readers’ Award in 2009. Amy Hole asked him about his work What started you writing fiction? It started with reading, of course. When I was young I preferred reading to real life, so wanting to write was a natural progression from that. I wrote stories as a child, poetry as a young adult, and started writing a novel once I realised I didn’t actually need anyone’s permission to do so. Reading is always a catalyst for the young. That’s just one reason why the planned closure of so many libraries is a long-term disaster in the making. Why thrillers? I need a solid framework to hang everything on, otherwise I flounder. I was 18 months into my one serious attempt at a non-genre novel, and had written something like 100,000 words, before realising that I didn’t know what it was about. The crime/thriller genre provides a focus I lacked on that attempt; and it works as scaffolding, not as a straitjacket. Slow Horses, for instance, has a fairly complex plot, but what interested me most was that it involved a cast of characters who were all, in one way or another, failures, looking for redemption. In this, as in much else, I’ve been encouraged by the work of writers like Reginald Hill, who show what’s possible within the confines of genre. How do you start writing a novel? By putting the moment off for as long as possible. I have a vague idea for the book after the one I’m writing now – so won’t be ready to work on for another year at least – but have pushed it to the back of my mind where it can grow quietly in the darkness. I haven’t committed anything to paper yet, on the ground that if I forget it that easily, it’s obviously not up to much. When I’m ready to start work, on the other hand, I’ll throw as much as I can onto paper as quickly as possible – fragments, mostly; snatches of dialogue, random descriptions of places, much of which won’t be used. But I need a lot of material to hand before I write the opening words, and admit I’ve started something new. It’s a way of avoiding blank page syndrome, I suppose. When do you write? Most days, between about 7.15 and 8.30. More at weekends. What are the best - and worst - aspects of what you do? The best part of writing is redrafting. The hard work’s been done, and there’s a peculiar joy in deleting as many words as possible. Some evenings I struggle to get down 300 words or so, but I never have difficulty in removing that many. As for the worst part: well, it’s a selfinvolved pursuit. And an anti-social one. My first thought on receiving any kind of invitation tends to be: That’ll cost me an evening’s work. Which is not a response most people want to hear from someone they’ve suggested an outing to. Which other authors do you like? It might be simpler to list the books I’ve most enjoyed this year – Nicola Barker, Burley Cross Postbox Theft; Paul Murray, Skippy Dies; Jonathan Coe, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim; Barbara Trapido, Sex and Stravinsky; Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic Universe. Seamus Heaney’s latest collection, Human Chain, is among his best. And the books I’m looking forward to are the new novels by Kate Atkinson and John le Carré, and Philip Larkin’s Letters to Monica. St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats email: office@stchads.org Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 15 website: www.stchads.org Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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