Spoilers throughout! Many years ago, my mother came by leather bound copies of the mid-Victorian magazine ‘The Argosy’ as part of a job lot in
These days, it is a firm convention of romantic novels that there must be a happy ending – otherwise, it confounds reader expectations. While some
I ordered a copy of Balzac’s ‘The Black Sheep’ (in translation, naturally; my French isn’t up to that!) from an online bookstore, and it didn’t
I have often written of how many writers combine both strong and sentimental writing in one novel, and that this is particularly true of
I never get much in the way of writing done in the summer and early autumn; family matters always take precedence. I feel guilty about
I hope to bring out my next novel, ‘The Villainous Viscount Or The Curse of the Venns’ within weeks. There’s been a long delay –
I’ll take some time off from writing comedy to put up a slightly less facetious post than my recent spoofs. Surprisingly, a couple of years
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