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Tolkien in Italy

Heroes December 9, 2023

When we were in Rome for a few days last week, I decided to check out “Tolkien: Man, Professor, Author,” a new exhibition at...

Dido of Carthage, Illustrated

Africa June 22, 2023

Tunisia is a sweet place to visit, not least because of the evocative Roman ruins overlaying tantalizing traces of the even more ancient Carthaginian...

Rory Gallagher’s Hardboiled Blues

Detective Fiction June 1, 2021

Rory Gallagher, for those whose ears have not yet been blessed, was Ireland's Archdruid of bluesy rock, a virtuoso on the guitar, an electrifying...

The Big Defibrillated Heart of Belfast

Heroes August 28, 2020

We’ve been in Belfast for nearly two months now and I’m afraid I’m getting almost fond of it. Don’t get me wrong, its bad...

In Appreciation of Felipe Gutterriez

Heroes July 4, 2020

Last week, our friend Felipe Guttierez died. Ever since, I have been thinking about his life and what he meant to me. And I...

Publishing with Unbound, an Interview with Emilia Leese

Heroes April 13, 2020

Finding a home for your book can be difficult, especially if you want readers to have that old-school sensory thrill of riffling through pages...

War’s End: Goodbye Bruno

Heroes February 23, 2019

Then from the dawn it seem’d there came, but faint As from beyond the limit of the world, Like the last echo born of a great...

Christine de Pizan’s Books for Bucks

Heroes January 30, 2019

My niece Emily started school this week, and it’s got me thinking how much I take reading and writing for granted now. At Emily’s...

Iliadding

Ancient February 24, 2021

We’ve been having a busy time with Iliad book promotion recently, in large part thanks to our gifted, energetic and absurdly generous friend Michael...

An Epic Ramble

Fiction February 25, 2021

Appropriately enough, this post on epic poems is too long. What can I say? Things got out of hand...I started out with a couple...

In Praise of P.G.

Fiction February 24, 2021

“You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves, Wodehouse stands alone, and analysis is useless.” Stephen...

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Tolkien in Italy