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 …
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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 …
The shadows of the garden: Maundy Thursday 2021
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I …
On Pods and Hobbits
Recently I’ve had two students sign up to study Lewis and Tolkien with me. This is not in itself an …
Review – “The Gospel of Eve” by Rachel Mann
All I wanted to do was re-examine Evie’s book. A palimpsest. Was that the solution to the secret of her …
Writing in Sequence: A Guest Post by Penelope Wallace
This is a guest post by Penelope Wallace, author of the “Ragaris” novels. Penelope and I have been taking about …
The Grammar of Praise: “Immortal, Invisible”, Verse 1
Hymns seem quite important recently. The scarcity of them in our present situation makes them seem more valuable, and I …
Review: Much Dithering by Dorothy Lambert
Much Dithering is both the title of a novel by Dorothy Lambert, and the name of the village where the …
Paris Geller and the Chunks of Iron: On the Uses of Unlikeability in Fiction
There’s a kind of character in fiction which my wife refers to as “a Paris”, and I call “a block …
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