Author and Renaissance wannabe
This is a wonderful opportunity for me to pay back someone for recommending a fantastic book to me, by doing the same and passing on the praise for it to you. I first heard The Lonely Londoners discussed on a radio 4 programme at the …
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I know there are dozens of versions of this song, and some people swear by Leonard Cohen’s original but the emotion in the guitar playing as well as the voice of this one gets me every time. And I mean the original studio version rather …
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I find one of the best places to lose myself is the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, which has a wonderful collection of pre-Raphaelite and other artworks. But one which always draws my eye is Andromeda by William Etty. It’s not the best …
Read MoreI always intended to include an occasional series here about the process of writing, including a realtime posting of the difficulties I’m facing as I create new material. There will be posts coming up doing just this, looking at issues around my new novel, ‘The …
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A Carol Symphony – Victor Hely-Hutchinson [CD – Naxos 8.557099] This is quite an unusual recommendation from me for several reasons, partly because it’s a classical music CD, which isn’t usually my main taste in listening, partly because it’s very Christmas related, and I’m not …
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I adore this film! I couldn’t even tell you how many times I’ve watched it and the cinematography, the score, the acting and the story are absolutely wonderful. In this 1983 film, Tom Conti (who I was lucky enough to meet and gush over about …
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