January 2025 brought British media coverage of fears over unrestrained ‘ rogue rewilding ’, sparked by the sighting (and subsequent...

Last week, we learned the sad news that David Lodge, the English author known for his Campus Trilogy , died at age 89. His comic novels...

Have you ever contemplated writing a book? Which comes first? The core idea? Or the storyline? Or the characters, perhaps? How do you...

It hurts when people don’t engage back on social media. Why don’t they? Some followers don't like or comment on my posts. Social media is...

Is innovative art at risk because of our preoccupation with nostalgia? Does our love for past things endanger new creative endeavour?...

Literary fiction is creative storytelling that transcends typical genres and labels. But what is literary fiction, exactly? Literary...

In Neil Mach's novel Moondog and the Scarce Vapour , the third book in the Moondog urban fantasy series, the Romani-born praeternatural...

Have you ever found it difficult to share an experience that truly happened to you with someone you know, because they won't or don't...

English author Neil Mach explores feelings of énouement in his fifth book in the Moondog urban fantasy series, Moondog and the Tercet...

Moondog and the Tercet Plume , the upcoming fifth book in the Moondog urban fantasy series, delves into the sub-textual theme of power...

The Moondog series features a praeternatural detective from the English Roma community who investigates mysteries that are outside the...

Travel back to the 1980s to discover this easy-going narrative about an old-school soccer player who finds he must transform himself into...

Growing up in Surrey, England, I became captivated by my County’s significant role in rock ‘n’ roll history, particularly its strong...

Mary is leaving because she’s expecting a baby. A gift card is brought into the office for everyone to sign. The office busybody stands...

Can you feel the breath in your nostril? Can you hear yourself? Your heartbeat? Your breathing? Your stomach juices? Close your eyes....

In the English language, there are around 25,000 idiomatic expressions, like “ spill the beans ” (which means to reveal a secret) or “...

Do you enjoy reading? Is English your secondary (or alternate) language? Want to be part of a book club that meets in Staines? Welcome to...

In England during the summer of 2024, enraged crowds wreaked havoc, looted stores, set fire to buildings, and assaulted police, seemingly...

In modern parlance the Phantom Cats of Britain are known as ABCs i.e. Alien Big Cats (the word alien is used to describe anomalous...

Do ghosts appear in mirrors? Ghostly images in the mirror are considered a type of scrying . I’ll address scrying shortly . Let’s say,...