Capitalism & Slavery
This book does an excellent job of showing exactly how the development of British capitalism was dependent on slavery. The author is Eric Williams, an…
Beauty? No, thanks
As a side note to my post last week on the cafes I have killed, I wanted to add one more thing…
Liebster Award reloaded
It was great to be nominated for the Liebster Award by Caroline of Beauty is a Sleeping Cat. Thanks, Caroline! In the…
The cafe killer
I have a confession to make. I’m a natural born killer. Don’t worry – I don’t kill people, or even butterflies. I kill…
The Silk Peacock by Hilary West
This is an interesting and very varied collection of short stories. The overall style is literary fiction, but there are some murder…
The Twitterati: literary fiction writers to follow on Twitter
A blog post listing all the writers on Twitter would probably take me a lifetime to compile, and cause WordPress to explode in indignation…
Who needs Paradise? by Paula Harrold
I first met Paula Harrold when she was a pink-haired Oxford theology student who decorated her bedroom wall with a large scythe.…
Let’s confirm nearer the time
Technology was supposed to simplify our lives, wasn’t it? In so many ways it does, of course, but then we seem to…
How quickly can you put out an eBook?
So this morning Chinese writer Mo Yan was announced as the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Not having heard…