Biography
Review – Hugh Trevor-Roper: the biography
When I first spotted this book in the library, I wasn’t sure whether or not to pick it up – I already had an armful to take out, and wasn’t looking for another one. Like, [more…]
Literature
Literature
Fer right terrah
Ah mind the time ah pure foilt a fer right terrah attack. Me an’ wee Kenny the probashunah endet up bein’ sent oot tae Ibrox wan day cos some wifey cawed the wan oh wan [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Nineteen
She was shrinking back, terrified. Not surprising thought Sam. Four masked men break into where she’s living, beat up the woman she’s living with, wave guns around, tie her and the other woman and man [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 1.6
ACT 1 SCENE 6 Orosius’ Castle, several Days later. Enter OROSIUS, TILDA, VULPECULA, JESSICA and ATTENDANTS.
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighteen
A shell-shocked Andy Bowson and his two colleagues were recovered by the emergency services twenty-five minutes after their captors had left them. Stunned by falling debris, lightly burned by the fireball that passed over them, [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Seventeen
“It depends what you are hunting, but yes we started to increase our defences, most of all in the last dozen years or so. We had some wealth now to invest in trade with our [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 1.5
ACT 1 SCENE 5 Orosius’ Castle, the following Morning. Enter OROSIUS, TILDA, VULPECULA, ETTY and JESSICA, and MAISIE with little VUSILLUS.
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Sixteen
It was no use; the waiting and the wondering were killing him. The police could be following him already, waiting to pick him up any minute. How much did they know? They didn’t seem to [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Fifteen
Sally Bowson couldn’t settle that afternoon. Over a late lunch she had pressed both Martha and her husband about the priest-monk’s fables. They had smiled patiently, confirming them, insisting that those in Holy Orders would [more…]