Truth is no stranger to fiction
This is an article I wrote for History Today published 11/11/2004. It is now locked behind a pay wall (fair enough) but the copyright is mine, so here it is.…
The Promise
A week ago I promised a posting on adverbs and how they can clog up our writing but day after day I've put it off. So I'm going to write…
The King’s Speech – plot, theme and Muse
We went to the pictures the other day for the first time since Slumdog Millionaire, entering with some trepidation, wondering if our eardrums would survive. But we reckoned that going…