Emily sat at home, she worried about Harry, she always worried about him. Out of sight, out of mind, couldn’t have been more wrong. He was due leave soon, but she didn’t know when he’d come to visit her for their standing afternoon of tea and cake, or rather tea and rolled jam…
After the roaring success that was The Mandalorian, with its stunning scenery, almost entirely new set of characters you actually cared about, set at a period of the Star Wars timeline we know comparatively little about, much was expected of The Book of Boba Fett. It had to live up to The Mandalorian’s standard. …
Published in 2021 by Lyons Press it tells the stories of a group of German Jewish artists and intellectuals interned on the Isle of Man during the Second World War. When speaking of internment many thoughts would probably shift to the internment of Japanese Americans by the United States. Yet it also happened…
The weeping willow quietly wept, she was the beautiful, lonely sentinel watching over the dead in the old church yard. She through her life had seen her charges arrive with their sombre entourages, watching them as they were lowered into the soft earth. She watched as the living filed away sombrely and as, through the…
This year Covid has made us stop and think about our practices and what we need and what makes us human. There have been struggles, the economy has shrunk, people have lost their jobs in what has the potential to become the largest recession in living memory. The social aspects of what…
A day to himself in the foreign place, he’d already got used to the almost permanent nerves which accompanied him just before active duty, his stints with the swansongs. Harry had written his letters; one to his parents, his gran, his older sister and one to Em as was his custom before potential death approached…