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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde Now Free Online

I have now posted all five books of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde free online. Troilus and Criseyde was the direct source for Shakespeare's own Troilus and Cressida. It tells the story of two lovers separated by war – the Trojan War in fact! It's not one of my favourite poems by Chaucer – the Canterbury [...]

French Cavalry Charge at Agincourt – Video From Medieval 2 Total War

I have been experimenting with some video capture software recently and recorded this brief video of the Battle of Agincourt from Medieval 2 Total War. The game version of the battle is actually pretty accurate. This is the moment when the French cavalry wings charge the English and are defeated quite easily by the English [...]

The Vulture – Chapter 3

Another chapter for The Vulture (provisional title), and another POV character. Hope you like it. Chapter 3 Alexia 'The stupid fool!' I shouted. My ladies withdrew hurriedly and left me alone in the long audience chamber of the old family home of Castle Haut Pass, lined with portraits of old ancestors and scenes of happier [...]

The Vulture – Chapter 2

Wrote a bit more of my experimental novel The Vulture this morning. Here's chapter 2 told from the perspective of a different character this time. If you're young or prudish I would advise you to please look away now. Chapter 2 Chabald My sword dripped red blood in a growing puddle on the floor. I [...]

The Vulture – Chapter 1

I recently finished writing the first draft of Hell has its Demons and I have begun the process of revising that novel. At the moment I'm doing some extra research into areas that I know I'll need to tighten up on the second draft, but while I'm doing that I thought I would experiment with [...]

Skyrim Released Today – Everything you want to Know About the Game in One Video

Skyrim Released 11.11.11 And although I'm not going to buy it today – might request as Christmas present maybe – I think it will still be quite exciting to start seeing gamers reactions to the new Elder Scrolls game, so I'll be watching out to see what people think over the next few days. Here's [...]

Dramatization of Tolstoy's War and Peace at the Prague German Language Theatre Festival

Dramatization of Tolstoy's War and Peace I never new there was a theatre version of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy before, but I just came across an announcement about the Prague German Language Theatre Festival – and apparently there is – though it's in German. I wonder if anyone would do an English version. [...]

I now have a Goodreads Author Profile!

You can see my Goodreads author profile here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Not sure if it will help much, but was quite fun to set-up! It's interesting to see that Goodreads are also allowing you to now sell eBooks via their website. I wonder how many sales they are getting though? Most of mine so far seem to be [...]

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – new Page on Praeter Naturam

Following on from my posting of information about Leo Tolstoy's The Cossacks, I have now created a new page about one of Tolstoy's greatest classics: War and Peace. War and Peace is one of those novels that a lot of people think about reading, but never get round to, probably being put off by the [...]

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

As well as Science Fiction and Fantasy I also love many works of classic literature, and probably my favourite author is Leo Tolstoy – specifically his great works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but also some of his lesser known fiction like The Cossacks. To that end I have started populating some information [...]