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HISTORY: A Succession of Damned Things

My favourite subject, ever since Junior School more than half a century ago, was and is History and the thing that first gave me a grasp of its significance was this poster on a classroom wall, courtesy of National Savings (something I didn’t notice back then). Ladies’ costumes (British) through the ages. Yes, terrible colour,…

THIS COLD NIGHT: Being Nice

This Cold Night is a crime novel with a detective (Rosanna Quillan) trying to solve mysteries. Missing girl. Murder. Fraud. The usual. There is also an issue in it that might not have concerned me so much if we were not living through these present times. I am not so naïve as to think we…


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