New book by Mark Iles!

New book by Mark Iles!

Jul 28, 2024 | Blogroll

Here we go, have you seen this? Of course not. Not yet anyway. I turn my back for a few minutes and author Mark Iles leaps in with a section of his blog tour. You see he’s written a new novel and up-and-coming UK publisher Elsewhen have published it. Really, Mark Iles...
Dragons & Princesses riveting read

Dragons & Princesses riveting read

Jun 20, 2024 | Blogroll

I am so busy writing and editing my own nonsense and committed to reading two books a month for two book groups in which I poke and mutually laugh, cry and enjoy novel, that I rarely find time to read extra.However, I couldn’t help myself be drawn into buying The...
True Horror Ticking in Prague

True Horror Ticking in Prague

May 2, 2024 | Blogroll, Returning Luggage

  A few years ago Gaynor and I visited Prague in the Czech Republic and fell in love with the city – its buildings, especially Kafka’s house and the still-working, centuries old Astronomical Clock. The latter is fascinating. Huge, accurate and clockwork. Then I...

A hole in a hole?

Mar 16, 2024 | Blogroll

My dad’s favourite sitcom was Last of the Summer Wine. As old as the Yorkshire hills they were set in – Holmfirth – Cleggy, played by Peter Sallis, uttered a profound astronomical observation in episode 5, season 6 (1982). While relaxing on a grassy hillside, he said...

The Memory Rock #Free short

Mar 9, 2024 | Blogroll

The Memory Rock (originally published by The Wifiles science fiction ezine in 2016 Geoff Nelder Teresa shouldn’t have left at lunchtime—against the rules, but girls need something the arbiters of school rules didn’t take into account, and the corner shop sold that...

Wet feet but exciting

Jan 3, 2024 | Blogroll

There I was cycling along a quiet Cheshire lane alongside the Dunham Massey deer park when I saw the fields either side had flooded right across my path. I knew it was a slight causeway so I didn’t expect the water to be deep. However, my front wheel was soon creating...