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The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy: Margaret Mayhew’s Detective Novels

May 11, 2022

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

June 16, 2021

This Sunday I’ll be speaking at York Festival of Ideas about universities and detective fiction, and you’re welcome to attend. …

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Review – “One Night in January” by Kate Wilson

May 15, 2021

I knew Kate Wilson back in the late 2000s, when we met at a creative writing group, a fact which …

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The shadows of the garden: Maundy Thursday 2021

April 1, 2021

Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I …

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On Pods and Hobbits

January 9, 2021

Recently I’ve had two students sign up to study Lewis and Tolkien with me.  This is not in itself an …

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Review – “The Gospel of Eve” by Rachel Mann

November 6, 2020

All I wanted to do was re-examine Evie’s book. A palimpsest. Was that the solution to the secret of her …

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Writing in Sequence: A Guest Post by Penelope Wallace

October 5, 2020

This is a guest post by Penelope Wallace, author of the “Ragaris” novels. Penelope and I have been taking about …

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The Grammar of Praise: “Immortal, Invisible”, Verse 1

September 11, 2020

Hymns seem quite important recently.  The scarcity of them in our present situation makes them seem more valuable, and I …

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Review: Much Dithering by Dorothy Lambert

August 9, 2020

Much Dithering is both the title of a novel by Dorothy Lambert, and the name of the village where the …

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Paris Geller and the Chunks of Iron: On the Uses of Unlikeability in Fiction

July 11, 2020

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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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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  • The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy: Margaret Mayhew’s Detective Novels
  • Inspector Morse, Universities and Detective Fiction at York Festival of Ideas
  • Review – “One Night in January” by Kate Wilson
  • The shadows of the garden: Maundy Thursday 2021
  • On Pods and Hobbits

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