IN MY PREVIOUS post, 'History's Long Shadow on the Land,' I revealed my passion for historical fiction — especially that which covers the period from 1485 to 1714. Of all the chapters in England’s past, none grip my imagination quite like the Tudor and Stuart centuries. It was a time when England was reborn through …
A Window on the Past I HAVE REVEALED in previous posts my love of historical fiction―especially that set in the Tudor and Stewart period (1485-1714). When written with authority and grounded in solid research, historical fiction can act as a richly textured window onto the past by animating facts with lived experience. While it does …
I AM A 50s child. My formative years were the 1960s and 70s ― for which I am extremely grateful. Now, at sixty-seven years of age I think I've earned the right to reminisce a little. Indeed, with more life behind me than ahead, my personal narrative becomes ever clearer; memories more precious. Memories become …
Discovering Küehne + Nagel’s Dark WWII Past WHEN I worked for the shipping and transport giant Küehne + Nagel, I was pleased to be a small part of the global logistics heavyweight. It was a company built on precision, reliability, and efficiency. Containers, tilt trailers, freight rates and manifests: this was the language of our …
Jeremy Brett and the Price of Being Holmes WHEN WRITING my two previous posts — 'The Timeless Detective' and 'The Melancholy Moor' — I was prompted to reflect on the actor who, for me, epitomised perfectly the precision and intensity of the Sherlock Holmes character. His was a performance that redefined the role for my …
IN MY PREVIOUS post—'The Timeless Detective'—I declared who, of the innumerable literary characters in English fiction, is my all time favourite. I also explained why. 'Few reading pleasures rival a Holmes mystery. Each feels like a game played in candlelight — a test of wits where the clues are laid before us, daring us to …
I PLACED MY first order with Book Club Associates sometime in 1977. The now defunct mail-order book company ran six specialist clubs at the time, and I'd elected to join their Mystery & Thriller Club. Of the six books that eventually arrived, two remain on my shelf today. Their dust-covers are now sun bleached, with …
RAVEN MOON 