I ought to make a housekeeping post w/r/t Bapton Books, and our new titles, and all that, but you can get all that here and here and elsewhereInstead, it is my duty here and now to say this. I have never agreed with La Rowling on politics (I mean, really, Gordon Bloody Brown?). I have seen, in the fandom she spawned - and that is the mot juste - ( Read more... )

Or, Why I Have Been Absent.

On All Hallows Eve 2014, Mr Pyle suffered a heart attack, and, on 7 November, underwent a treble bypass surgery. (Mr Pyle asks that I clarify: he remains a bass-baritone, not a treble. It was not that sort of surgery.) During his ongoing recovery and medical leave...

• I have taken on many of the administrative duties at ( Read more... )

Here is a depiction of Moses, or Musa.

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Here are a few principles. They are the agreed principles of the partners in Bapton Books. It strikes us - as Borno State, in Nigeria, burns and Islamists hold hostages at (of course) a kosher shop in Paris and in Dammartin (where is Jeanne d’Arc when she’s wanted) - as important to state them anew.

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Or words to that effect.

We are rejoiced to tell you that the Kindle version of Crafts and Assaults is now available.


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Mr. Pyle remembers this day particularly:

Omaha: Force ‘O’

116 RCT

Dog Green; Dog White; Dog Red; Easy Green; (Easy Red; Fox Green):

1/116 INF (116 RCT), 29th ID
  2/116 INF (116 RCT), 29th ID
  3/116 INF (116 RCT), 29th ID

The first wave.

29, Let’s Go.

Gunfire Bombardment Support Force C:

USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Arkansas (BB-35)
HMS Glasgow (C21)
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‘Always scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr Gibbon?’ (The duke of Gloucester, upon being presented with a volume of the Decline and Fall.)

[The cover, if you like to see it.]

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Aintree and the Boat Race, obviously. And I come bearing a Bapton Books position paper, concerning Mozilla, the Coalition, and other objective fascists.

I trust I shall be back more fully amongst you all in due time.

Cross and Poppy fans will be pleased to know that The Woolfonts now have a tumblr blog: http://thewoolfonts.tumblr.com/

Our position paper is available here or here.

Otherwise, here it is, in full:

[Shades of 1914.]Night of the Jackal: VV Putin & UkraineVV Putin - and it really is quite remarkably difficult not to write that as, ‘Putain’ - is not, personally or as leader of his kleptocratic, kakistocratic regime, bold by nature. Bullies and jackals are never bold: they crumble and ( Read more... )