Robert Louis Stevenson
When the bone pain gets bad, my inner NCO keeps me in check
In Frederic Manning’s classic Great War novel, The Middle Parts of Fortune, the shattered battalion shambles out of the line…
Children’s books provide the perfect escape from coronovirus
The lockdown we have been enduring has at times felt drawn from the pages of a children’s book. The eerie…
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Semi-recluse (me) seeks dilapidated cottage on Dartmoor to rent
So now I must find somewhere else to put my books and live sometimes. Dartmoor, I thought: one of the…
Full of fabulous, but baffling, things: Oceania reviewed
At six in the morning of 20 July 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson first set eyes on a Pacific Island. As…
Lights – stories of the sea, and those whose mission is to save us
The story — or rather, stories — of how the British lighthouses were built has already withstood heavy and repeated…
The pirate myth
Hear the word ‘pirate’ and what picture springs to your mind? I see a richly-bearded geezer in a tricorne hat…
