When I was young, I loved this show. Levar Burton's Reading Rainbow helped instil a love of reading into me. That has lasted all these years and left me with multiple literature degrees because I just love to read all sorts of things and think about them and
Edinburgh is a city of hidden secrets. Treasures tucked down the closes and wynds of Old Town that the casual visitor may walk straight past without noticing. This is especially true on the succession of roads collectively called the Royal Mile connecting Edinburgh Castle above to the Palace of Holyrood
Walpurgis Night In the summer of 2019 I returned to university after a gap of fifteen years to complete my undergraduate degree. I was, to put it mildly, uncertain about what I had got myself into. One of my early classes was a course on the horror story, and it
Books have long been at the centre of my life. Not just as objects to be read and set aside, but as companions, as arguments, as windows into other times and ways of thinking. The kind of thing you find yourself turning over in your mind long after you have