Despite my penchant for going through phases, I have to say that I’m a little proud for having kept up with Inspired-Quill. Alright, so I have decided to update twice a week instead of three times, but that was a decision I made not only to help me have more time to develop the site [...]

I read this book because I have spent three years reading things from ‘the canon’, and felt that I should have got through this one by now. And I’m glad I did, because it’s great! I was actually pleasantly surprised because I had it down as a slushy love story, but at no point did [...]

Bill Masen wakes up after a week of being blindfolded in hospital, only to find that seemingly the whole of London has been blinded by a meteor shower. As he sets off to look for others who have retained their sight, Bill encounters Triffids. These are genetically-modified stinging plants, originally developed for the nutritional value [...]

I bought this because I have seen and liked the Danny Boyle film version (2000), and because it was on 3-for-2 at Waterstones. I was expecting a light little holiday read to dip into now and again when it took my fancy. The Beach is NOT a light holiday read! I finished it in about [...]

Continued from PART 1 Johnson: In terms of intelligence, Benjamin Johnson is your playwright. The son of a brick maker, he excelled to have one of the finest educations available, but he never let anyone forget about it. If he were a rock star I’d consider Johnson to be a more preachy version of Billy [...]

It’s been a while since my last review and even longer since my last article, but less than 24 hours after my English exam on Renaissance drama I felt I might as well put that knowledge to good use. Today I’m going to guide you through the exciting world of the English stage in the [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

“As an obsessive communicator and dreamer up of stories, not writing wasn’t an option. The novels Backlash, Breakbeat and Burnout are published by Simon & Schuster UK. The Mentalist is published by Five Leaves Press. I also work with film, poetry and non-fiction as well as teaching creative writing.” – Rod Duncan. I have been [...]

Love is a powerful weapon, and when it becomes twisted by jealousy, hatred, and suspicions, it can also do evil. England at the time of Henry VIII’s reign. King Henry is worried, since his wife, Queen Catherine, has not been able to give him a heir, a son; only a girl-child and dead-born sons. When [...]