https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Aristocrats_Are_Evil Here’s a very funny article about the wicked titled in fiction. Well, after the parliamentary expenses scandal of ten years or so ago, which
I was in a mood for some escapism. I re–read some Sherlock Holmes stories – those are among the few works of fiction that I
Sometimes, when life is stark, the only thing for me is one of Shakespeare’s plays: I suppose it is those ‘universal themes’ that bring
I have always revelled in silly names, particularly in novels: Gussie Fink-Nottle and Cyril Bassington-Bassington, anybody? While writing my latest, I was delighted to find
I couldn’t resist posting that new cover from EBook Launch for ‘That Scoundrel Émile Dubois’. I think the former one was too cartoon like.
‘ ‘To remark on the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and
‘A good humoured satire of the cliches of Gothic romance… When Clarissa Greendale inherits the fortune from a disreputable uncle she hardly knows, she
Scene: The Dastardly Duke and the Spirited Heroine (in the role of governess) now take dinner together, in the great hall of his castle somewhere
Some months ago, I wrote a post about the thin line between horror and comedy; and on how one can so often lead into the
Setting: Wuthering Heights, the dining room . The table is laid for three. Joseph clumps about in his heavy boots, slopping unappetising looking porridge into
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