Rock stars...

...at school.

Digital detox destinations

in Scotland.

10 Best Movies of All Time

According to the Independent. They left out Local Hero, Stormy Monday, The Last Picture Show, Quadrophenia, Ride with the Devil, and Snatch!

Agent Blanche

19 and very brave.

Snake on the loose!

In Shepherd's Bush! I'm against all importation of exotic species. And especially snakes! South Florida is a no-go are for me forever more.

From the DM

A story on McIlhenny's tobasco sauce.The ingenuity of people amazes me. McIlhenny's owns just 20 acres of land on Avery Island, Louisiana, and produces about $2 million a year of hot sauce. They can bottle 700,000 bottles a day.

Agents

I'm in the process of contacting agents. I've had a few interesting and thoughtful responses, but so far no takers. Keep on tryin'!

Thank you again!

I'd like to thank 'Vorpal' for his 5-star review of TSTR at Amazon. He had some interesting takes on the tome!

From The West Briton

Devolution in Cornwall?

Sequel to TSTR

Now that the 2nd edition of To Save the Realm is done and out on Amazon, I'm working on the sequel. It's 1964 and Alfred St. John Sherbourne has called Brock back to England. I've finished the first chapter!

30 quotes about Ireland...

...and the Irish. My favorite is the one from Freud. From the Telegraph.

End o' Civilization?

Soon come, according to a NASA-funded story, from The Independent.

St. Patrick's Day Free Promotion!

At my Kindle site. 3/17 and 3/18!

2nd Edition of To Save the Realm, con'd

The second paperback edition of TSTR is up at Amazon!

Finding things hard to find...

...like a missing airplane.

Extinctions

The Chinese pangolin, a scaled mammal, being eaten to extinction by the Chinese.

2nd Edition of To Save the Realm

The 2nd edition of the paperback should be ready by Monday or Tuesday. In the meantime, the Kindle edition is available here.

Thanks to you lot who've already bought Kindle version!

Castle

For Sale!

Thank you...

...to the Instapundit, who gave my book a mention on his quite popular blog site. It has resulted in some new readers and a new 5-star review at Amazon.

And in...

...Mycenae.

The best...

...first lines in fiction.

RIP

Major Lee

From The Observer

Nice piece on LeCarre.

The Independent...

...has the wickedest cartoonist!

From the Kentish Gazette

This is the way it should work. Superhead excludes 40 pupils...

Shakespeare

...and Marlowe.

The Real George Smiley

John Bingham, master spy.

Vikings

94 ships once raided London.

Exclusive from the Grauniad

Ruins at the Tate. I love ruins...

New Edition of To Save the Realm

A new Kindle edition of TSTR is available at Amazon. The paperback is still going through the publishing process. Buy it and read it!

Buy me bloody book!

In Britain! (2nd edition!)

The Wave of the Future

Airships in Bedfordshire.

The British Traitor

Kim Philby: I have a character very like him in To Save the Realm.