Michelle Paver has again produced a great ghostly tale as she did with "Dark Matter". Well written and "creepy" this book works as a...

Cataclysmic events have happened here and there throughout the worlds history. Asteroids, Meteorites, Ice ages, rising seas, seismic events;

reviewers had compared the writer to Stephen King and Thomas Harris. Just ignore that, I suspect that they were looking for a comparison

A farm boy from the highlands, fifteen, suddenly studying in the Athens of the North.

Perhaps when all this passes, if it passes, I will open for business again but I suspect that the print mag is gone forever.

I had no idea when I published this book the marvelous reviews it would garner. I thought It a wonderful collection of tales. I was...

It is rare that I add music to websites, blog posts and /or comments. Music, like literature is a very personal thing, what I may enjoy;...

an abiding love of horror stories, ghostly tales and the fears that reside within us all. Phobos and Deimos

I do not often participate in such things as "blog tours" but on occasion a writer will catch my attention for all the right reasons. One...

Only a day to go until the interview and preview of A.J.'s new novel appears on my blog. Keep on sending in your questions, it does not...

It is rare that I have found a novel by David Gemmell lacking. You always get an entertaining heroic fiction. I knew what to expect and...

A.J. has just released a new novel "Demon Tracker", which, from the little I have read, looks great and could well be a rare treat.

Some one, I do not recall who, suggested the works of "Sarah Perry" to me and I am grateful for the suggestion. (thank you, whoever you...

Homeric tales may well be considered a world and many lifetimes away from the highlands of Scotland and the MacDonald massacre at Glencoe...

The Swords of Night and Day. There are few who can compete with Mr Gemmell (sadly departed) when it comes to writing heroic fantasy. I...

Thomas Harris took some time to come up with something that both embraced his earlier "Hannibal Lecter/ Will Graham/Clarice Starling"...

The Athenian army (of which Socrates was but one lowly soldier) were sailing to lay siege to Syracuse In Sicily (a possible colony and a way

A countryman of mine was once quoted as a watching a spider trying to weave a web in the cave where he was hiding from the armies of King...

I know I wrote this book so long ago now that I would normally have signed off on it on long ago. I have; on many other old novels and...

A little anecdote; forty odd years ago now the "Voyager" probe was sent out to travel eternally into space. It would and has passed...