Review – “The Company of Heaven” by Catherine Fox
Catherine Fox’s Lindchester Chronicles are a series of novels and stories about a fictional cathedral city in England, and The …
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Disclosures of Form: Shakespeare, N.T. Wright, Malcolm Guite and An Unexpected Journal
This week sees the publication of an issue of An Unexpected Journal including an article of mine. I didn’t write …
The Betrothal Shillings and the Silent Ones in Church: Customs of a Cumbrian Parish
This week I saw some pictures taken by my sister-in-law of the school Nativity service in the small Cumbrian village …
End-of-Year Books Roundup 2022 (Part 2)
…and onto the second part of my “books I read this year which I am still thinking about” round-up. No …
End-of-Year Books Roundup 2022 (Part 1)
We’re now well into December. Advent is thoroughly underway, there’s only one week of term left at the university, tonight …
Review: Murder While You Work, by Susan Scarlett
Murder While You Work is an unusual book for several reasons. It is by Susan Scarlett, a writer I had …
“Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction” – free ebook and launch event
Yesterday Cambridge University Press published my short study entitled Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction – and the …
The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy: Margaret Mayhew’s Detective Novels
I recently read six novels by Margaret Mayhew, after stumbling across her work in the back catalogue of Joffe Books …
Inspector Morse, Universities and Detective Fiction at York Festival of Ideas
This Sunday I’ll be speaking at York Festival of Ideas about universities and detective fiction, and you’re welcome to attend. …
Review – “One Night in January” by Kate Wilson
I knew Kate Wilson back in the late 2000s, when we met at a creative writing group, a fact which …
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