September 21, 2026 – “Your worst enemy ain’t Moby Dick, it’s your half brother, Derek.”

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For the denizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond is nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories – or Times – are a microcosm of the tumultuous rec...

‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...

“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have per...

The Author Q&A has been running for a few years now and there are 120 interviews on the blog, it’s had a bit of a hiatus as things went on in my world and I decided to separate the info t…

This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…

Now that Southwark has become desirable, the patches of neglect are placeholders for the chains and high-end outlets the...