Novelist and Reviewer: Author: The Other Book, The Liberators. The Darkening Path Trilogy: The Broken King, vol. 1; The King's Shadow, vol. 2, and The King's Revenge, vol. 3. The Double Axe, a retelling of the Minotaur story, and The Arrow of Apollo. How To Teach Classics to Your Dog published October 2020. Wildlord, publishing October 2021.
It's been a busy August, what with the "holidays", and trying to work alongside them... here are a few posts and articles that I've managed to produce over the past few weeks.
Notes on Flatmates for the Spectator, about the new Pope's living arrangements.
A piece about Letters of Introduction, also for The Spectator.
And continuing my series about Shakespeare in Context, a piece about the Burbages for my Substack.
I've written a piece for The Spectator about the declining quality of vocabulary in children's books. There wasn't space, unfortunately, to talk about the excellent writers who do stretch children these days, like Frances Hardinge, Marcus Sedgwick, Sally Gardner, F E Higgins et alia.
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is a film I enjoy greatly: I also greatly enjoyed writing about it, and the real story behind it, for The Specator.
