by Bruce Melrose | Apr 2, 2019
Brian Glanville © 1969 Faber & Faber 318 pages I FIRST READ The Olympian when I was a teen with a love of athletics and fiction. 40 years later, reading the novel again this week was as exciting as the day I first discovered an old pan paperback copy in a second...
by Bruce Melrose | Jan 15, 2019
This summer I treated myself to a volume of The Best of The Tough of The Track comic strips that once appeared in the British magazine for boys called Victor. For those unfamiliar with Victor it was a weekly comic paper published weekly from the 1960’s through to...
by Bruce Melrose | Apr 15, 2018
I’m going to give myself a pat on the back. Growing up in Paekākāriki, it was a beach life. A big focus over the summer months was surf lifesaving. It stood to reason. As a beachside community, people swam and surfed there. While I was never actively involved the surf...
by Bruce Melrose | Sep 10, 2017
One of the reasons for attending the recent World Track and Field Championships in London over August was to get a first hand a feel for how showcase events are run these days so I can more accurately describe the mechanics of the latest innovations in my novels....
by Bruce Melrose | Jun 20, 2017
I haven’t written a blog for a while due to being busy on the work front (yes, like 88% of aspiring authors, I work a day job that lets me save a bit on the side for producing my running novels) and also because I’ve been writing in my spare time. Asked recently why I...
