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Richard Cubitt

Richard Cubitt

About

I reside in England and in August 2013 I graduated from the Open University with a First Class BA (with Honours) degree in English Literature.

I'm a fan of all genres of literature. Some of my favorite authors are as follows:

Classics - Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Dumas, Dickens, Milton, Dante, Henry James, George Eliot, Hardy, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P.Lovecraft.

Contemporary Literary: John Banville, Ian McEwan, J.G. Ballard, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Amis, Bret Easton Ellis, Philip Roth, John Fowles.

Sci Fi - Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, Dick, Frank Herbert.

Fantasy - Tolkien, Philip Pullman.

The Race for Flugal Farm

The Race for Flugal Farm

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<p>The Race for Flugal Farm is the first book in a trilogy that charters the lives and adventures of the inhabitants of the Riding Stables at Flugal Farm.</p><div>Times had been hard for George Flugal and his wife, and this inevitably resulted in him having to sell the majority of the school's horses until he was left its just four: Pogo, Biff, Troy and an ex-racehorse called Chance.</div><div>The horses who along with a young stable hand Rachelle Perkins, a dog named Nugget, a pig called Nigel and an old family friend Uncle Dave, make up the Flugal's extended family.</div><div>When they find themselves facing the possibility of having the farm repossessed by the bank, and bought out by the odious Mr Williams, have to pull together to enter a carriage drive in order to win the prize money and save their way of life.</div>

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<p>'This is an interesting and varied collection with which I was very impressed. A lot of which would actually make good longer stories. On occasion the author provides a brief introduction to a story that allows a glimpse into the writing process i.e. ‘Prologue’, an experiment written with a novel in mind; ‘The Earth’s True Children’. With ‘Silk’ there are two versions, the shorter of which I think loses something in the trimming.<br /> As for the other stories, I thought ‘The Grief of Lawrence Gould’ and ‘Masks’ were very good and thought provoking, but perhaps a bit wordy in places. ‘Through the Eyes of a Child’: hard-hitting and the shortest short story I’ve ever read. However, by far the best and worth the purchase alone is ‘Hideous Humanity’, a brilliant, caustic rant, detailing the slow and inevitable decline of a perfectly normal everyday man as he rails against the stupidity, banality and fading morality that we are all faced with day after day. It gripped me, made me laugh out loud, made me think. I truly hope the author writes the next instalment. Well worth reading' - John Prentice</p>