30th August 2017 Having just published The Librarian & other strange tales I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to list my ten favourite

4th August A long time since my last post – have been preoccupied with the completion and production of Detective Fiction and The Ghost Story

26th March It is amazing how writing absorbs one’s time – it is quite a few months since my last post but the new book

6th October My first post for a few months – have been working hard finalizing the outline for my new book.  I’m pleased to say

June 10th My new book on the relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story will surface next year.  I am thoroughly enjoying the research

Funny how events jog the memory – this week has seen considerable coverage of the Titanic disaster centenary.  It was a timely reminder to me

I am going to include a chapter on The Hound of the Baskervilles in my second book.  Despite being one of the most written about

Well, I am now actively pursuing my next book, which will consider the relative positions of detective fiction and the ghost story, and in particular

A sad event to record since my last blog – the death has been annouced from Canada of Josef Skvorecky.  Coming so soon after the

I have had a recent win on the AZED crossword in The Observer which has nicely coincided with my continuing research into my next book on the

It has been a long time since my last post but Narratives of Enclosure has now been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the UK (12th Oct) and is

There is now an amended publication date for Narratives of Enclosure, it will now appear on 30th September.  I don’t think there will be any further re-scheduling. In the meantime

The research for the book then, is a combination of a lifetime’s reading and exhaustive preparation for my PhD thesis.  The book as it now

This brief introduction to what will be a regular blog is being written with my first book, Narratives of Enclosure, the first full length critique of the