The Shetland Witch is a novel about witches and modern Shetland, serialised in 1000-word episodes each week. Come for the magic and the landscape, stay for the archaeology and the mythic entities. Now available as an ebook and in print!
Writer. Recovering publisher. Literary historian. Editor. Describer of relics and organiser of meetings. From NE Scotland, now living in mid-west England. Mixed accent.
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My biography of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, Literature for the People, is out now. I mostly write about people, authors and history, late 19th and early 20th century. Now working on a particular group of 20th century women linked to the Labour Party
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An occasional humor column, much like the one I did at The New York Times, which was called "I Was Misinformed". But now, the only gatekeeper is me. I hear I will let me get away with anything.