Magic Mystery and Adventure at Sandy Cove Cottage – Glenn Brentnell
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Digby reflects on the 1919 Influenza Pandemic in Bulawayo
The 1919 Influenza Pandemic in Bulawayo I’ve recounted how in the late 1940s we used to go and see Mrs Cotterell, the mother of my mother’s oldest friend, at her farm near Bulawayo. Now...
Playwriting in 24 Lessons – Abdolhai Shammasi
Abdolhai Shammasi, an Iranian playwright, explains how to construct a stage script in Playwriting in 24 Lessons. To purchase your copy or any of Abdolhai’s other books, click on the relevant image below.
Murtagh – Christopher Paolini
Murtagh by Christopher Paolini, is a book in the World of Eragon series. By all accounts it’s book 5 of The Inheritance Cycle Series. However, not having read the first four had no negative...
Digby reflects on the Empire Air Training Scheme in Bulawayo
The Empire Air Training Scheme in Bulawayo and other memories of World War II Second World War veterans are fading away. Meanwhile, fewer and fewer of the rest of us can say we even...
Li Wo: They Stood By To Die – Nick Tucker #Preview #Medals
Nick’s books are published through the Orders and Medals Research Society.
Poppie – Elsa Joubert
Poppie – Elsa Joubert Some time ago I read Cul-de-sac by Elsa Joubert, her last book, and in the process discovered Poppie, first published in 1978 in Afrikaans and then in English in 1980....
Why Africa? – Melvin E Page #Preview #Memoir
About Mel Mel Page studied for his PhD at Michigan State University. Within a year of his arrival in Malawi as a Fulbright lecturer, he began a career of historical research focusing on the...
Digby reflects on Testing My Memory
Testing My Memory – by Digby Hartridge As an erstwhile oral historian I know that the trouble with a memory is that each time you retrieve it, compose it into a story, perhaps curtailing...
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein’s Daughter – Tim Symonds
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein’s Daughter – Tim Symonds Mention Einstein and one generally thinks of a grey-haired man and/or E=MC2. I can’t say I ever thought of him being married, let...
On this day – 26 July
26 July On this day… 2001 – Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses angry farmers in Cumbria about foot and mouth disease. Brian Cook writes about the impact of the disease in the Yorkshire Dales...
On this day – 20 July
20 July On this day… 1969 – people walked on the Moon – read about it on Nasa’s website. Craig Carter never lands on the moon but he does seem to enjoy space encounters....
An Uncomfortable Narrative – Joseph Mahoney
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On this day – 10 July
10 July On this day… 1942 – Sixto Rodriguez born in Detroit – his Cold Fact album was inspiration Cold Fiction
Digby Reflects on a Return to Rhodesia – Kariba
RETURN TO RHODESIA: 2. KARIBA Our trip home to Rhodesia from Australia in 1978 gave us a chance to see Kariba (and another jiggle of the dice of death). I hadn’t seen Kariba since...
On this day – 3 July
3 July On this day… 1883 – Franz Kafka born in Prague – Cracks in a Frozen Sea 1938 – LNER locomotive No. 4468 Mallard achieved the world speed record for steam traction –...
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moby Dick – Herman Melville It appears that I am one of a minority who have worked through Moby Dick by Herman Melville – that is the unabridged version. I say ‘worked through’ as...
The Kingdom of Egypt – Owain Raw-Rees
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On this day – 24 June
24 June On this day… 1850 – Herbert Kitchener born, Gainsborough, Ireland And it’s apparently International Fairy Day…so here are some books about Fairies. Enchanted Fairytales – Judy Mastrangelo Sir Chocolate and the Ice...