Ship Burial Novel

Call me Imma. Some years ago when the English writer and leviathan alcoholic Malcolm Lowry arrived in the port of New York, legend has it that upon complying with a request to open his trunk the customs official discovered that it contained nothing except for a single football boot and a battered copy of Moby [...]

Älvalek by August Malmström 1866 © National Museum, Stockholm This beautiful painting, which I would love to see in the flesh one day, is as you can see by glancing to your right, the cover picture for The Rune of Ing. Älvalek means ‘Dancing Elves’ or ‘Dancing Fairies’ but I prefer the former, not only from [...]

The word ‘malaria’, a conjoining of the Italian mala aria meaning bad air, has cropped up repeatedly in the news lately due to a certain celebrity contracting a vicious strain of Plasmodium falciparum while on holiday in Tanzania. She is now recovering but only after intensive treatment at the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Yes [...]

Tide Mill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, where the River Deben broadens under the escarpment of Sutton Hoo in a way that seems almost preparatory to its final journey out to sea… How difficult it is to imagine them: Those strange outrageous ancestors Ploughing ships in movements of the earth Riding bloodless horses over buried turf Armed in [...]