I’m curled up on the armchair by my bedroom window as I write this, watching a red kite gliding through the air. It’s low today. It’s bloody huge! There was…

I’ve been reading a lot about humanism this week; mainly about Niccolò Machiavelli’s take on it versus Lorenzo de’ Medici’s. Lorenzo believed that anything was possible and, therefore, worth trying,…

But it would be a while yet before they could eat. While the gentlemen were settled with hot food and plenty of drink, the servants stood about, each near their…

A few years ago, the lovely E. A Comiskey pitched me a book called Curmudgeon, describing it as Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in a Grumpy Old Men meets Supernatural story.…