The Secret History of Georgian London – sordid, seamy, captivating, alluring, repelling, wicked, fascinating, and very, very British – and that’s just the first page. It’s a strange thing; the Lock Hospital (18th-century London’s first institution specifically for treating sexually-transmitted diseases) made almost as much money from renting out pews in its chapel for Sunday […]
A burnt-out police detective becomes embroiled in a child murder investigation while on African safari. Will this case send Detective Duffy over the edge? ‘Leopard Tree’ – a novel; available 2015
The Dark Space inside each of us
An examination of God. A look at what makes us human. A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk (well, maybe not that last one). Welcome to Dark Space, by Marianne de Pierres. While it may not be Rochelle Rochelle, Dark Space is a journey of a different kind – one through human nature […]
OOTS time for some dungeon crawlin’
I can hear my parents now. ‘Webcomic? Stupid dice?.. you’re not seriously going to review a cartoon, are you?’ Well don’t be fooled – Rich Burlew’s Order of the Stick (OOTS) is much more than just a bunch of stick figures. If you love role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons and you haven’t seen […]
A burnt-out police detective becomes embroiled in a child murder investigation while on African safari. Will this case send Detective Duffy over the edge? ‘Leopard Tree’ – a novel; available 2015
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