I enjoyed one of those wonderful events recently; you know the one, when you pick up a random book in the library and it turns out to be truly amazing. The book in question was 'The Poisoning Angel' by Jean Teulé; a donated book, and the library was in Sandy. It was a risky move on my part; a translated foreign work. Always a worry because they so often don't translate. There have been so many I tried and did not finish. Feeling brave, adventurous at picking it up, I opened t

On an earlier post I made mention of Sandy’s Iron Age forts, and in so doing touched on Vikings too. It’s true. There were Vikings in...

A writer of words and a musician in the past, I find myself immensely proud of the role and function of bardic tradition in Celtic...

Over the last week and two I have released my first novel out into the world. 'Nightjar' is a literary fantasy set in a feudal future,...

Those who know me realise my reviews are less a blow by blow account of a book (I don't like giving things away), and more a consideration of my own thoughts on having finished a piece. Today I'm doing Sci-Fi - an unusual event for me, usually sticking to weird literary and classics, some fantasy in there too. But Sci-Fi? It's a rare occurance, and I'd certainly never read VanderMeer before. In fact I'd never even heard of him before picking up 'Annihilation' on a whim in the

Potton is a small town in Bedfordshire that I used to live in. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book and it is said that Hereward the Wake...

Visit Ludlow. I could leave it at that, but I won’t. Ludlow is a gem of a place, in Shropshire, close to the border with Wales, and...

Labyrinths... I mentioned finding a labyrinth on a walk in Boscastle. It’s carved into the dark rock of a granite cliff behind an...

This week I decided I'm going to self-publish 'Nightjar'. Why? I gave myself a time-limit on agency submissions; wanted to at least try...

After considering Iron Age forts and the landscape local to where I live last week, I’m going to come leaping forward in time and...