If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.
- When That Great Ship Went Down: The legal and political repercussions of the loss of RMS Titanic, GMW Wemyss and Markham Shaw Pyle, Bapton Books 2012 ( Read more... )

Which I here share:

Are All Writers Crazy? No, But It Helps….

(Note: contrary to what ISIHAC’s Uxbridge English Dictionary would have you believe, “remiss” does not mean “putting on a schoolgirl uniform … again”.)

Cross and Poppy - to put all this in one convenient place - is available as follows:
[All the shops.]
In trade paper and Kindle at Amazon UK.
In trade paper and Kindle at Amazon US.
In Kindle at Amazon AUS. (No ( Read more... )

Some kind person has made a TV Tropes page for Cross and Poppy (otherwise, That Book You Mean to Read Any Day Now. Ahem).

At this very moment - whilst Some of Us are confronting dodgy weather, flood, and Being Yet Rather Chilled Although It Has Been An Entire Day Since the Boxing Day Meet - Mr Pyle is finding, on Facebook, that those who were up at university with him yet remember every article, leader, review, report, and outrageous bit of humour he wrote then. And ( Read more... )

The last of this Christmas’ Bapton Books list of memorable books and authors: our canon, as it were: is now posted.

A very happy Christmas to all.

And now to dine….                         

I did promise to mention when B&N / Nook had Cross & Poppy. Consider it mentioned.

In materially unrelated news, we at Bapton Books - having seen the social media meme w/r/t ‘ten books that have “stayed with” one’ - decided that was inadequate, and have been recommending numerous books in very many categories. It may be of some utility to those ( Read more... )

Right, where were we? Oh. Right.

I again commend to you - it having been part of the reason for my protracted absence - my new novel, Cross and Poppy, specifically the first in my new series of novels, Village Tales. I am honoured and chuffed to see that it has been very kindly reviewed. (I may add that some of you must surely immediately ( Read more... )

In the next few days and weeks, I shall be getting played back in on fests and comments. I shall also have a few things to say about the Ashes, and Trott, and the lost art of proper, not witless, sledging (I defy anyone to imagine the current sort of profane grunting being indulged by, say, Don Bradman and Alec Bedser ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce the publication of a new novel, Cross and Poppy, the first in the Village Tales series. It is available as an Amazon Kindle edition, and is being in trade paper (and is already thus available directly, here). It is also available as an e-book at Smashwords; and in the coming days, it is to propagate to Apple, Diesel, Kobo, ( Read more... )