(Warning: spoilers below) “What’s the best love story you’ve ever read?” This was the question interestingly posed on Facebook’s Woman Alive Book Club page. There were a lot of suggestions – Ross and Demelza from Poldark, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Jane Eyre” were obviously high on the...
A friend recently lent me "Understanding the Bible" by John Stott. (Please note this is a review of the 1972 edition. I’m sure there must be a later one. This has nice illustrations by Annie Vallotton, who did the gorgeous drawings in the Good News Bible.) I...
It seems a long time since I posted anything about the continent of Ragaris, or the novels about life and murder there that I am hoping to inflict on the world. There is news. As far as writing goes – I am still seeking to publish Ragaris...
If your friend came to you and said, “The woman next door is a witch, and her spell is the reason my brother got cancer,” you would not believe him. Would you? We're all civilised nowadays. In 1900, Frank L Baum published a story called “The...
So far, in my posting about Esau, I have concentrated on the case for the defence – Esau’s alleged sinfulness, and God’s choice. And of course it’s very reassuring that God can still “choose”, and certainly use and bless, someone like Jacob. Someone whose life from...
Diana Wynne Jones’ children's fantasy “Howl’s Moving Castle” starts: “In the land of Ingary… it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out...