Describes motivation process for creativity with emphasis on intrinsic motivation by Corey K Katir

The Missing Shade of Blue: A Philosophical Adventure. By Jennie Erdal. Little, Brown; 309 pages; APS12.99. Buy from Amazon.co.ukJENNIE ERDAL is a British translator, the author of several non-fiction books and a memoir of her life as an editor and ghost writer. aThe Missing Shade of Blue: A Philosophical Adventurea, her first novel under her own name, is a wry, intelligent work. Reminiscent in mood and setting of the early fiction of Iris Murdoch, it follows clever people as they make a sad mess of their lives.It tells a story of adultery, madness and suicide, all of it conveyed in hindsight. The narrator is Edgar Logan, who has come to Edinburgh from Paris to translate the work of David Hume, a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher. While in Scotland, he becomes intrigued by the personality of a colleague, Harry Sanderson, a man in his early 60s and, at the end of his career, suffering and self-aware.At the centre of the novel is a high-definition portrait of Sanderson. His marriage to the much younger Carrie has degenerated into a series of suspicious and hostile exchanges. As seen through the eyes of Edgar, he is a wreck of a man with flaking skin and bloodshot eyes, swigging whisky and red wine in equal measure, and talking endlessly…

The Missing Shade of Blue: A Philosophical Adventure. By Jennie Erdal. Little, Brown; 309 pages; APS12.99. Buy from Amazon.co.ukJENNIE ERDAL is a British translator, the author of several non-fiction books and a memoir of her life as an editor and ghost writer. aThe Missing Shade of Blue: A Philosophical Adventurea, her first novel under her own name, is a wry, intelligent work. Reminiscent in mood and setting of the early fiction of Iris Murdoch, it follows clever people as they make a sad mess of their lives.It tells a story of adultery, madness and suicide, all of it conveyed in hindsight. The narrator is Edgar Logan, who has come to Edinburgh from Paris to translate the work of David Hume, a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher. While in Scotland, he becomes intrigued by the personality of a colleague, Harry Sanderson, a man in his early 60s and, at the end of his career, suffering and self-aware.At the centre of the novel is a high-definition portrait of Sanderson. His marriage to the much younger Carrie has degenerated into a series of suspicious and hostile exchanges. As seen through the eyes of Edgar, he is a wreck of a man with flaking skin and bloodshot eyes, swigging whisky and red wine in equal measure, and talking endlessly…

In this week’s Culture Gabfest video endorsement, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss Roman Polanski’s political thriller The Ghost Writer, which was just released on DVD.

Writer of children’s books invented much-loved creatures who made use of ‘things that the eveyday folk left behind’Elisabeth Beresford, the writer best known for creating the much-loved children’s television programme,The Wombles, has died.The 84-year-old invented the characters of the Wombles of Wimbledon Common, who became household names in the 1970s.Beresford died at 10.30pm yesterday in the Mignot Memorial hospital on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, after suffering heart failure, her son Marcus Robertson said.The first Wombles book was published in 1968 and, after it was broadcast on Jackanory, the BBC decided to make an animated series. Beresford wrote over 20 Wombles books within a decade, which were translated into more than 40 languages. She also wrote a Wombles stage show, one version of which ran in the West End.A total of 35 five-minute films were broadcast on BBC One accompanied by Mike Batt’s music and the programme’s synonymous theme tune, Underground Overground, Wombling Free. The characters were voiced by actor Bernard Cribbens and the puppets created by Ivor Wood.Beresford was inspired to create the characters by a child’s mispronunciation one Christmas, when she took her children to Wimbledon Common for a Boxing Day stroll and her daughter Kate referred to the area as “Wombledon”.A number of the characters she developed were based on members of her family. Great Uncle Bulgaria was based on her father-in-law, Tobermory on her brother (a skilled inventor), Orinoco, on her son, and Madame Cholet on her mother.Beresford was born in Paris in 1928, although her family home was in England. Her father, JD Beresford, was a successful novelist and book reviewer and friends of the family included HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw, W Somerset Maguham and DH Lawrence.Her own literary career began as a ghost writer, specialising in speeches, including for Conservative MPs. …

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