Lance slept. Sheets damp and crumpled. Outside a siren wailed. The pale light that pierced the curtains could have meant it was almost evening. A day that had had much prospect had perished stillborn like the last four. He dreamed about Mart because he still owed him, languishing there…
Squirreled away in the secret vaults or ‘Спецхран’ of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow are treasures and artefacts that have been lost to the public since 1945. They are works of art firstly looted by the Nazis and then by the Red Army—two…
Media reports suggest that Baroness Michelle Mone has been sighted in Mayfair. Meanwhile the UK government is suing a UK Company associated with her, PPE Medpro Ltd, for £122 million for the supply of unusable medical gowns. Costs are accumulating at a rate of £61,000 per week for storage of…
In 1995 I was drawn to an article on the website of the Jamestown Foundation about the Feliks Group. Named after the founder of the Soviet secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, it was established just prior to the end of the Soviet Union and the disbanding of the KGB. There’s no…
I’ve been persuaded to write a blog. I’ve written four complete novels, but I have never before written a blog. What should I write about? Are there any courses I can take on blog writing? What is its purpose, and will it detract from my novel writing? More to the…