Donald Trump has been compared by some to Adolf Hitler. (I don’t know, something to do with his love for Tiki-torch-bearing Nazis and generally being a little bit fascist-y?) But reading Barbara Tuchman’s riveting The Guns of August, about the outbreak of the First World War, I was struck by the eye-popping similarities between Donald …
Dusting off the cobwebs of this old blog with some news. It’s been a while, but I’m excited and proud to say that I have a new book coming out in 2018. It’s the fourth in my Silas Quinn series, set just before the outbreak of the First World War. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: R. …
The call started in the usual way, with the usual heavily accented voice: “Hello, am I speaking to Roger Morris?” “Yes.” “Good morning, my name is Alex. I’m calling from TalkTalk. We have identified some problems with your router. Your router is constantly downloading malicious malware which is considerably slowing down your computer. I need …
I don’t always get round to approving every comment that gets posted on the blog. It’s really just because I forget to check the comments and they sit gathering dust in my ‘comments pending’ file. So I thought I would have a look in there and pull out a few of the best. Thanks for …
2016 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, Crime and Punishment. To celebrate, Leeds University is holding a Dostoevsky Day on the 19th of February and I’ll be taking part. It seemed like a good excuse to read the novel again, especially as Penguin have recently published a new translation. And the translator, …
On rereading Crime and Punishment in the era of Making A Murderer. Read More »