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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Nick Duerden
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
msn.com | Nick Duerden
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Nick Duerden
There is a rare breed of writer whose books defy easy categorisation, their subjects prone to meandering in an intellectually driven stream of consciousness across the page. They may touch upon fiction, memoir or even philosophy, but they delight mostly because they reveal a brilliant, and idiosyncratic, mind. In the UK there are, among others, Deborah Levy and Geoff Dyer; in the US, Sigrid Nunez and Vivian Gornick.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nick Duerden
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nick Duerden
In December 2022, the four members of Blur reconvened to discuss the possibility of a reunion. This surprised bassist Alex James, as he admits in his new memoir, because their last meeting, eight years previously, “was a car crash that had haunted me daily ever since”. While the reader is curious to know whether it was his driving that caused this metaphorical pile-up, James opts not to elucidate. Where band business is concerned, he is required always to tread carefully. Diplomacy is key. Anyway.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
welldoing.org | Nick Duerden
Slowly but surely, Nick Duerden had cocooned himself away from human interaction and become increasingly isolated in middle age
Walking his dog, Missy, changed everything
Dog walking in middle age has given me plenty of time for private contemplation. My iPhone battery is unreliable, and so podcasts have a habit of abruptly cutting out mid-walk. What else am I supposed to do, then, as the dog roams through the undergrowth, but think?
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Anthea Rowan |Nick Duerden
Teresa, 60Peter was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 50 but I’d begun noticing subtle changes in him for at least three years before then. We’d been married for 20 years by that point so I knew him pretty well. There were changes in his mood, in him not knowing where he was; he got frustrated over practical tasks. Also, at work — he used to run a timber business — he was making more and more mistakes. Our daughter, then 19, noticed things as well.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
metacritic.com | Carol Midgley |Jasper Rees |Barbara Ellen |Nick Duerden
It is filmed beautifully, edited with wit, soundtracked with flair and narrated with warmth and authority. .... It is notable that, in this first episode at least, Asia has toned down the rhetoric that permeated Planet Earth III, for example, of the Anthropocene and human-induced destruction. Read More
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Nick Duerden
I had children young. My first came when I was 16. Then I had three more children with my first wife, Sharon, and seven with my second, Michelle. Daniel is the second eldest from my marriage with Michelle. Before he was born I had a vision that he would become a world champion boxer. Then I saw that he had a lot of muscle and so I said to myself, I’m going to get him into the game as soon as I can. I was training him up by the time he was four years old. A lot of people don’t have the vision I have.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Nick Duerden
The singer Morrissey once said he was happiest the day before he was born. For me, it wasn’t long after. I have an older sister, Julie, and I was just two when she went off to school, so I had my mum all to myself. She would cook mince and peas for lunch and we’d listen to Jimmy Young on Radio 2. His theme music still makes my heart sing. Before you’re sent to school, you are free to be you. As soon as you’re in a group with other children there are rules; you must conform.
