Nothing can undone the harm that they’ve done but, at least, this week, we have seen some of the nastiest men of our life times getting their comeuppance. For all the horrors committed by Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serbian…
I have just finished the third draft of my new Brighton novel, my third, Over the Hills is a Long Way Off. I will put it aside for a few months and then take a final look at it, but,…
I’m often under scrutiny in my small Lewes urban garden but I’m getting used to it. I live next door to a one-eyed Siamese cat and, without actually being on speaking terms, we have a pleasant enough relationship which I…
Mignon – an opera by Ambroise Thomas. Portrait of Ambroise Thomas (1811 – 1896) in 1834 by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin I know not all of my readers share my enthusiasm for opera but stay with me…
A lot of people here in Sussex feel shaken by the horrific air-crash on the A27 road at Shoreham yesterday. So far the police have confirmed seven deaths after a plane attempting a loop at the annual Shoreham Airshow crashed…
Wolfgang Glinka in On Gloucester Road My prose poem, On Gloucester Road, has had an interesting life so far. I wrote it after being contacted with the Moscow-based American publisher, Marco North who was compiling an anthology and asked…
Yesterday, I went with some friends to see Vera Sackville-West’s spectacular gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, about an hour’s drive from my place. I took a lot of photographs and hope to publish a blog about the day later this week.…
I’ve written this page to keep people up to speed with my writing activities thinking it might be useful to make a list of my publications along with links to the publishers’ websites. I shall keep it here up at…
F. Poulenc: Sonata for Flute and Piano Flute. Karl-Heinz Schütz Piano. Eliko Akahori ——————————————————————————————————– STEPHEN DEARSLEY’S SUMMER OF LOVE BY COLIN BELL My novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, was published on 31 October 2013. It is the story of a…