The Moniker of the Rose
A relatively short blog this week. When it’s published, I’ll be in Venice – and by complete coincidence (naturally!) we’re staying next to the great Venetian dockyard, the Arsenale, and the naval museum. Does this mean that a future Quinton story might be set in Venice? I couldn’t possibly comment…but hopefully next week’s post will […]
The Rise of Historyism
It was a very bad week for politicians and History. Or, to be exact, it was a bad week for History because of politicians’ inability to stop distorting it to serve their own ends. Take David Cameron’s big speech to the Conservative conference, for example. ‘This is the country that … defeated the Nazis…and fought […]
Jester Minute
All authors start somewhere. I’m not quite sure when or why I got the bug, but it was certainly very early on. My mother relates how my infants school teacher (ages 4-6) told her that she loved reading my stories: whereas a lot of the kids turned out a paragraph or two about bunnies, I’d […]
Priceless
In many respects, the Kindle Store on Amazon is a very odd place: titles appear and disappear for no apparent reason, prices change seemingly from day to day, and, of course, there’s the endless frustration of discovering that the book one wants to get on Kindle isn’t actually available in that format yet. Or ever. […]
