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Exsilium, Alison Morton (Pulcheria Press, 2024)

I’m pleased to join Alison Morton’s Exsilium Blog Tour today with my review of the latest thrilling addition to her Roma Nova series… In Exsilium, Alison Morton continues the origin …

Suffragette – and a chance to win The Bristol Suffragettes + film goodies!

I was delighted to be at Bristol Cineworld cinema in Hengrove for the screening of Suffragette on Monday 12 October 2015, when the film went on general release, to give …

The Buddha and Books Part 1

I’ve just finished reading The Lacquer Lady by F Tennyson Jesse (first published in 1929). The novel is set in Mandalay in the 1880s and charts the fall of the …