Shelf Life: The Book of Better Endings by Rob Gregson: An Original and Very Funny Fantasy Novel
One of the favourite pieces of advice to writers about creating tension is : – ‘Torment your protagonist’. And, of course, the said writers often
One of the favourite pieces of advice to writers about creating tension is : – ‘Torment your protagonist’. And, of course, the said writers often
It took me ages to find an English translation of the sequel to ‘Rinaldo Rinaldini Captain of Bandetti’ by Christian August Vulpius. In fact,
This morning I woke up from a dream I could not remember, save that part of it was the haunting poem from Jo Danilo’s ‘The
I finished this on Halloween – highly appropriately, as I don’t think it will be writing a spoiler to say that this is a
Germinal is Émile Zola’s masterpiece, and I am fairly typical in thinking (and I have only read it in translation) that it contains his most
I have recently been re-reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Mary Barton’. I thought I had long since written a review of it; it seems not. This is,
‘I suspect that that this particular reviewer and others who write in capital letters with exclamation marks that a book is BORING!!!!!!!, are in fact, more outraged than bored by it. You don’t shout when you’re bored: you doze off.’
I have just finished reading Nicholas Monsarrat’s ‘This is the Schoolroom.’ It’s just under 450 pages long in the version I read – no short
I wanted to add a post about a ghost story at Christmas. Which of the many to choose as a seasonal ghost story? I am
I recently re-read ‘The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories’ Edited by Robert Aikman, dated 1964. I would still say that this is one of
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