Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium is a new novel that paints a panorama of Victorian England through a set of charming short stories. A great read for fans of Victoriana, steam engines, top hats, ghosts and bathing machines!
Available both in in paperback and e-book formats, it can be purchased either from Amazon or from this website. For further details of the book itself and to order, click here.
I visited the Rocketship for the first time today. It’s a new bookshop for children, though it has a shelf of Salisbury authors and, since I am a Salisbury author, I took some copies of Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium along. I think anyone who wants to write ought to start by reading to children, ideally between the ages of six and nine. That way you tune […]
I bonded with the Victorians a long time ago. Until I was six I lived in a house where there was no electricity, so I’ve experienced at first hand the ways in which family life arranges itself round a single source of light and heat. I went to a Victorian school which had gas lamps – one of the classrooms didn’t have any lights at […]
I have written before in this blog about the lion attack on the Salisbury mail coach in 1816. For those of you who missed it, this is the story. In The Devil’s Coachman, the first of the inventor’s two tales, there is an account of how a lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach at what was then called the Winterslow Hut (until recently The Pheasant). […]
