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Clerks, Clerics and Tricksters: A Word and its Literary History

April 2, 2017

This weekend the Erewash Press published Anthony Trollope’s novel The Three Clerks.  It’s a great read, partly because of the …

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A Church in Crisis: Anthony Trollope’s ‘Clergymen of the Church of England’

March 24, 2017

Last month the Erewash Press published Clergymen of the Church of England, Anthony Trollope’s collection of “clerical sketches”.  In it …

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Miss Mackenzie: A Spinster, A Fortune and some Stumfolds

December 18, 2016

Miss Mackenzie is the title of a less-famous novel by Anthony Trollope, but it’s one I’ve been fascinated by ever …

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Taliessin through Logres: Arthurian poetry, Charles Williams and the Inklings

November 12, 2016

A week ago the Erewash Press brought out a book I’m particularly excited about.  It’s entitled Taliessin through Logres, and …

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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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