First published in 1921, by Jonathan Cape, Percy Lubbock’s “The Craft of Fiction” is a classic work on the novelist’s art. When I read it for the first time in the late 1960s it left an indelible impression on me. The book has a...
For anyone who speaks British English – or a fairly close variant such as South African English – travelling to the United States can be a linguistically challenging experience. As a frequent visitor to the US (I have a daughter living there) my confusion...
In the last few years before I retired my office was at 6 St. James’s Square, London. I had no time for leisure reading in those days, but temptation lay close at hand in the form of Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly. Sometimes I would take a brisk walk at...
There is a shelf in my study reserved for prose anthologies; I have had a soft spot for them ever since “A Book of Modern Prose”, compiled by Margaret Flower, was one of my school set books way back in the 1950s. (It was only later that the appropriateness...
My third novel, Comets, was published as an eBook and has been for sale on Amazon since the middle of last year. A few days ago it also became available here on Smashwords. One of the requirements for listing on Smashwords is that if the book is intended for...
