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Showing posts with label Jonathan Stroud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Stroud. Show all posts
Saturday, 31 May 2025

A few wise words from William Gladstone

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T he UK statesman and former four-time Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone has been mentioned in a few articles, including one about his ...
Sunday, 16 February 2025

A few words about disowning unworthy people in favour of books

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T his post was inspired by a striking passage in Jonathan Stroud's  fantasy novel The Amulet of Samarkand , the first in the series that...
Monday, 8 May 2023

Angels and demons in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood books

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T his is the final article in the series inspired by Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co . books.  U nlike Anthony Horowitz's little...
Friday, 7 April 2023

Ghosts and glamour in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood books

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T his is yet another article in the series inspired by Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co . books.  T he temptation articles stress how...
Saturday, 18 March 2023

Defence Against the Dark Arts Part XXIII: Anthony Horowitz’s Diamond Brothers stories

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I discovered Anthony Horowitz’s Diamond Brothers around 14 years ago. I read the seven books that were available at the time and even review...
Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Threats follow temptation in Jonathan Stroud’s Creeping Shadow

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T he main reason for producing articles that go into great detail about the temptation scenes in Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co . books...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Temptation scenes in Jonathan Stroud’s Creeping Shadow

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I n the article about two temptation scenes  in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co . books, people are advised to beware of anyone who ...
Sunday, 11 December 2022

Two temptation scenes in Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood books

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T his article has something to say about what might be called the temptation of Lucy Carlyle, a major character in Jonathan Stroud's Loc...
Sunday, 13 November 2022

Something about Nicholas Stuart Gray's Mainly in Moonlight

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I have recently read Nicholas Stuart Gray's Mainly in Moonlight (1965) for the first time.   Mainly in Moonlight consists of ten short...
Sunday, 23 October 2022

Today is the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Stuart Gray

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T he Scottish writer, playwright and actor Nicholas Stuart Gray was born on this day, October 23rd, in 1922. *** T he In Memoriam  article ...
Wednesday, 12 October 2022

The cult leader in Jonathan Stroud’s Whispering Skull

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I find Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co . series well worth reading for the stories alone. Material that inspires commentary is a bonus!...
Friday, 15 April 2022

Jean Rhys: more about witches, magic and energy vampires

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I n the previous article in the series inspired by Carole Angier's biography Jean Rhys: Life and Work , I said that Carole Angier expla...
Tuesday, 15 June 2021

More about Walter de la Mare's Return

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T he first article about Walter de la Mare's horror novel The Return  ended at the point where Arthur Lawford, whose appearance has chan...
Wednesday, 9 June 2021

Something about Walter de la Mare's Return

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I like WaIter de la Mare's children's stories and poems very much indeed. I feel much the same about them as I do about the works of...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Predatory ghosts in Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood books

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J onathan Stroud’s predatory ghosts were introduced in a brief article in which some of their similarities to Terry Pratchett’s Elves  were ...
Monday, 10 June 2019

A few words about some fictional elves and ghosts

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T here  are a few similarities between the elves in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books and the ghosts in fantasy writer Jonathan Stroud’s wo...