Book Review
Tales from the Crypt
The recent screening of Mark Gatiss’ Dracula – an enterprise that started well enough but fell away into nonsense like many of the BBC adaptations – reminded me of an enterprise that I initiated some [more…]
Book Review
Book Review
Book Review: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Identity and Race by Douglas Murray
Published by Bloomsbury Continuum, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2019) ISBN 978-1-4729-5995-9 In the follow up to his book bestselling book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Douglas Murray examines the matter of identity politics. [more…]
Arts
Writing and Publishing a Novel
In life you meet many people who say they have a novel that they want to write, but how many ever even start, let alone finish? A tiny percentage I would guess. I know someone [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell – Part 2
Published by Quill, an imprint of William Morrow & Co. 1988 paperback edition (first published 1987) ISBN 0-688-07951-2 In the previous part of this review and discussion, we looked at Part I of Thomas Sowell’s [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell – Part 1
Published by Quill, an imprint of William Morrow & Co. 1988 paperback edition (first published 1987) ISBN 0-688-07951-2 Having reflected on how often he had encountered the concept of ‘visions’ in his work over the [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: The Unseen Path by JD de Pavilly
They say that Freddie Forsyth is happy to review any new written work. The caveat being that, if after half an hour he is bored or confused, the soft bits (that’s your or my great [more…]
Authoritarianism
From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey
Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]
Arts
The Unseen Path – Publication
The first Going Postal serialised novel – The Unseen Path – is now published and available to purchase. It was serialised over the course of about 11 months in 2017/18, and ran to about 180,000 [more…]
Arts
Inside the Neolithic Mind
This is a rather niche book, but I know there are (at least) a few Puffins keen on archaeology, so I thought it might be of interest. It explores, as the subtitle says, ‘consciousness, cosmos [more…]