Arts
Escape Of The Ransomed Princess
You’ll have to take this with a sprinkling of salt — or several fistfuls if you’re the sort who needs receipts for everything. To be frank, I don’t much care if you believe me or [more…]
Fiction
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…]
19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 30
September 3rd, 1811. I have been too much occupied to keep up my diary for several months. We have all been toiling on the improvement of the Bear Inn, which had fallen into some disrepair [more…]
19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 29
June 9th, 1811. At sea once more, we discovered that two of our crew had deserted, preferring the fleshpots of New York to their homeland and what will certainly be a more than generous reward [more…]