“Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were...two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
Tag: Historical Fiction
Milkman (Book of the Month: July 2020)
“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.”
Publisher Review and GIVEAWAY
Reviews and GIVEAWAY
A Right Royal Face-Off
A satire of one of England's greatest portrait painters, Thomas Gainsborough.
The Native Commissioner
“If you could read the secret history of your enemies, you should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities.”
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
“And who decided which people wore the striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
The Book Thief
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
The Snow Goose
“He was a friend to all things wild, and the wild things repaid him with their friendship.”
The Long And Short Of It
A collection of short stories of The Chronicles of St Mary's.
