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Isolation in Iceland: thoughts on I Remember You

Posted on 28 November 2017 by admin

Having read Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s novel I Remember You (Ég man þig) and seen the film adaptation, I found myself thinking about the theme of isolation. A ...

Personal/Writing

And that’s the first draft

Posted on 4 January 2017 by admin

You will go to the devil, die when you will, you will go to a rare place when you die.[1]Purloined from a real trial that you’ll find out about in Fatal E...

Writing

Interview: Verity Holloway and “Beauty Secrets of the Martyrs”

Posted on 1 January 2016 by admin

I was on holiday in Kefalonia as a child when I saw my first dead body: the rather wrinkly 16th century St. Gerasimus. He wasn’t on view for tourists, onl...

Books/Writing

Lament for an Unavailable Spy

Posted on 15 December 2015 by admin

At some point, Poison Panic will be available on Amazon. How very exciting. Because I had a couple of minutes in which my brain demanded something to do and bec...

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