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“I went out with this girl two years ago. She was six years older than me, and we got on really well. I was in love with her, but she felt that the age difference mattered and finished it. I was heartbroken,” Callum reveals and shrugs his shoulders in a disillusioned gesture. I’m sitting opposite this young man, who wants to talk to me about his inability to find another girlfriend since the breakup, despite various determined efforts, and I’m scratching my head why he is still single. On paper, Callum is every girl’s dream: 6ft 1” tall, muscular (he’s obviously a regular gym-goer), andRead More →

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Have you ever come to a place where you thought, ‘Wow, I’ve come home’? You just felt that pull – Call it destiny or comfort. Well, when I came to Yorkshire for the first time in 1988 to visit a holiday romance from the previous summer, I certainly felt that pull – no pun intended. My love affair with ‘Gods Own County’ actually began a long time before 1988. I’m German, you see, and we Germans are very fond of the English humour. And, in 1979, some bright spark at the German television channel ARD had the grand idea to buy in one of theRead More →

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“I’m the kind of person that would start something and never finish it, “ Jane smiles. “So, when I said to my family one night that I was going to write a book, they all went at first ‘oh, yeah, lovely, right’, and it was forgotten. Because I don’t do things like that.” Jane waves her hand dismissively. Jane McDermott has invited me for a coffee and a chat at her home in Pudsey, Leeds today, to talk about the motivation behind writing and self-publishing her debut novel ‘Hopes, Dreams & Houses’. “This story has been in my head for a long time, from whenRead More →