Dublin Can Be Heaven. Alt Hist 3.
Earlier this week I received word that a short story of mine has been accepted by Alt Hist , a wonderful magazine of historical fiction and alternate history short stories. A…
In the current TLS…
It isn’t available online, but I have a review of Markus Heilig’s “The Thirteenth Step” in the current TLS.
Extract from a paper in progress on sleep in J G Ballard’s fiction
“Manhole 69 follows three volunteers, Avery, Lang and Gorrell, who have undertook a procedure which has removed the ability to sleep. The primary investigator, Dr Neill, reflects with scorn on sleep:…
From “Look At the Harlequins!”, Vladimir Nabokov
“At its worst it went like this: An hour or so after falling asleep (generally well after midnight and with the humble assistance of a little Old Mead or Chartreuse)…
Water reviews
At A Medical Education , I have blogged a review of two books about water for the TLS from 2008. So why not reblog it here? ——————– Apologies for the hiatus. This…
Unpublished piece for SAU Blog on Russell Brand / Johnathan Ross / Andrew Sachs, 2008
I suggested this piece to the SAU Blog editor at the time and he was quite keen on it – promised to “use it shortly” but it has never appeared.…
An unpublished review: Review of “THE GREAT WAR: STORIES INSPIRED BY OBJECTS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918” – written for Children’s Books Ireland, Sept 2014
This capsule review took a lot of work and in the end wasn’t used for CBI’s Recommended Reading guide. I guess because I didn’t recommend it. I recently have been…
The NaNoWriMo and I
I have been a little slow on the blogging front. Partly this is because I have been trying to complete a story which I have been kicking around for years.…
Séamus Sweeney 