A Story While My Phone Charges.
I spent an energyless afternoon alone in my apartment, striding around the rooms and looking out of the windows. These …
Tag Archives: Family
Great Goodness.
It was so early in the morning that the light seemed to sting like antiseptic. The boy detective was crossing …
The Train.
After lunch they had all agreed to go for a walk. There was a large park – over eighty acres …
Jaws Sprung.
When Amir woke that morning, the first thing that he did was to lie in his bedsheets and listen to …
Army in Place.
There were seven McSweenies in all. By now, all of them were men – the youngest was twenty-one and the …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Working Class Hero.
There is considerable bemusement across the Fringe and it is of totally the wrong kind. The “funniest” joke of the …
Introducing the Detective.
The house looked immediately like a stroke of mischief. It was from the late-Victorian period and so symmetrical that it …
The Named Person Mysteries: The Case of the Teetotal Teenager.
[It has just occurred to me that there has never been, in the entire history of detective fiction, a detective …
Up On The House.
Back in the drawing room, the man who was known to them as Upensky was gripping the carpet with both …
Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
Childermass.
On the floor a small envelope containing the unmistakable shape of a Christmas card was lying amongst the day’s flyers …
Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (2/2).
INTRODUCTION and PART 1. I had wanted to sit back and be alone with the city for a while, doing …
#Indyref Anguish: The Unnamed Wilderness.
On the 30th August, Hampshire police obtained a European arrest warrant for the parents of a severely ill five-year-old boy …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Barge Baby.
[The following contains spoilers.] Over at C Nova, Bricks & Mortar Theatre’s new play “Barge Baby,” which is written by …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (41).
… and how the little one of all, whose sports had hitherto broken the decorum of the scene, understood the …
