Darryl Jones, For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James (Oxford University Press, 2026), 437pp. M. R. James did not make it easy for anyone to write his biography. He introduced this difficult…

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Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

As the legend of Lizzie Borden comes to Netflix, we visit one of the most notorious murder mysteries in American history. A brutal double murder that inspired one of the darkest nursery rhymes of a...

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

Writer for hire. Reviews, essays, features.

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

Upcoming and past exhibition at Philip Mould & Co.

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

YouTube video by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

In the centuries after the retreat of the Roman Empire in the West, the Britons who had thought themselves the inheritors of Rome were overcome by Germanic incomers, a story of migration and insularit...

A talk followed by a Q & A - based around my new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination

In the centuries after the retreat of the Roman Empire in the West, the Britons who had thought themselves the inheritors of Rome were overcome by Germanic incomers, a story of migration and insularit...