46308 2f093ea3-5f6e-417c-bb4d-7b1e82d58abd Mammoth Books Presents Featherweight Robert Shearman - featherweight calibre (7.18.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 I don't like writing at home much," admits Shearman.<I> </I>"Home is a place for sleeping and eating and watching afternoon<I> </I>game shows on TV. There are too many distractions. So, years<I> </I>ago, I decided I'd only write first drafts in art galleries. "And the best of them all is the National Gallery, in London,<I> </I>a pigeon's throw from Nelson's Column. I can walk around<I> </I>there with my notebook, thinking up stories - and if I get bored,<I> </I>there are lots of expensive pictures to look at. Perfect. "A lot of those paintings, however, have angels in them.<I> </I>They're all over the place, wings raised, halos gleaming - perching<I> </I>on clouds, blowing trumpets, hovering around the Virgin<I> </I>Mary as if they're her strange naked childlike bodyguards. And<I> </I>I began to notice. That, whenever the writing is going well, the<I> </I>angels seemed happy, and would smile at me. And whenever<I> </I>the words weren't coming out right, when I felt sluggish, when<I>... Little, Brown Book Group 9781472102591 eng