Category Archives: Writing

Just finished Robert Massie’s amazing biography of the Empress whose power and craft might have been equaled by only one woman in history, Elizabeth I. This is a part of history my education sadly neglected, probably because the main events … Continue reading →

Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such … Continue reading →

I’ve been waiting a couple years for Hilary Mantel to write a sequel to the amazing Wolf Hall, 2009’s Booker Prize winner, telling the tale of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, usually a villain … Continue reading →