Walked out to an abandoned village. Saw a white-tailed eagle flying low over the water. Then an otter, lying on his back in the bay. Dog marginally less excited than me about all of this…

This week: a howl into the void about a government that has denied the young all the nice things conservatism promises, and instead of fixing this comforts itself by choosing to believe we don’t vote Conservative because we are Too Woke.

thetimes.co.uk/article/work-i…

Morning!

Feasgar air leth aig Ardgour Ales. Chòrd am piotsa ‘s an leann gu mòr ruinn ‘s cha robh an rathad dhachaigh cho dona nas mo’. / Lovely evening at Ardgour Ales. The pizza and beer were delicious and the road home wasn’t bad either. #Gaidhlig #Lochaber

Monks pirates and murder… this month’s host fic fix: starring Inga Vesper S.G. MacLean Tim Leach

Contemplating Mull…

Dog in Ardnamurchan ❤️

Have been waiting for someone to write a novel about regicides on the run. Fascinating history turned thrilling fiction from ⁦Robert Harris⁩. My review….

thetimes.co.uk/article/da5b0c…

I’ve been seeing a lot of people being critical of certain lists going around naming problematic authors, directors, actors etc. I get some of the frustration, as a lot of these lists don’t include non-problematic entertainment alternatives. So I’m going to list some below:

From the Archive
On Misogyny in Historical Fiction
An article by Antonia Senior
aspectsofhistory.com/on-misogyny-in…

Read The Tyrant's Shadow
amazon.co.uk/Tyrants-Shadow…

Women Writers' Network
womenwriters

#historicalfiction #historymatters #literatureposts

Compulsory wild swimming shot. With my very game nearly 8 year-old…

A few pics from a week on #Skye . As someone once said about something else, it exhausts superlatives. Here again next week for more of the same. Or, possibly, 7 days of horizontal rain.

My review of “Dünkirchen 1940”, by Robert Kershaw, an excellent addition to the #Dunkirk canon - in today’s Times Books thetimes.co.uk/article/dunkir…

Skye just showing off now.

Moonrise over Skye

Heatwave you say? I’ll just hang me washing out. Oh, wait. We’re on Skye. Inside a very wet cloud. Heating on.

If there's one thing I really enjoy, it's writing immensely bleak essays for UnHerd about the future of the American colonies. (Ideally with an apocalyptic headline and then a slightly odd sub-headline.)

unherd.com/2022/08/americ…

From the Archive.
On Misogyny in Historical Fiction
An article by Antonia Senior
aspectsofhistory.com/on-misogyny-in…

Read The Tyrant's Shadow
amazon.co.uk/Tyrants-Shadow…

Corvus
Historia – the HWA

#histfic #writingcommunity #booktwitter