Shakespeare

That strange time at dusk

I think the hours when night changes to day, and day changes to night are very strange when you are outside… the sky seems to take on an odd quality, even if its odd in a nice way, a sunny day disappearing into a pleasant evening. Hamlet talks about ‘witching times’ meaning the deepest darkest […]

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Soul wound

A soul wound is how the psychologist Edward Tick describes what we more usually call PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; these days it is a commonly recognized condition which can arise from any dreadful stress, but in my next novel ‘Flipside’ David Sullivan is suffering a breakdown through his experiences fighting in a number of different war zones in the 1980’s and early […]

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