Waterloo | Waterloo
Jan.27.2012
I was at Nick and Nat's Uptown 21 in Waterloo...... read more
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Jun.03.2010
The Allies enter Paris, July 1815
It was just before four, as a new day and a new era dawned, that Leo awoke. In the feeble candlelight, the unfamiliar room slowly impinged upon him. Incomprehension was displaced by a hazy...
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Dec.04.2009
A twitch upon the ancestral web...sensations of déjà-vu...nostalgia for times and places outside her own experience...these piloted Roisin towards her destiny and vanquished the doomed spirits of the air...
Christmas approached. The...
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Dec.01.2009
A twitch upon the ancestral web...sensations of déjà-vu...nostalgia for times and places outside her own experience...these piloted Roisin towards her destiny and vanquished the doomed spirits of the air...
It was a dreary November day...
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Oct.30.2009
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ Fiona stuffed her tongue between her teeth, her freshly sharpened quill travelling over the virgin pages of a new exercise book she had pledged to...
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Oct.22.2009
The Honourable Leo Quinn settled back against the shabby upholstery of the hackney cab and made a vain bid to suppress a yawn. Stuffing, he noticed, was bursting from a gash in the leather. Propriety obliged him to make use of such anonymous...
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Oct.21.2009
Just when you think Hugo will smother you with the domestic and social travails of post-revolutionary France, he surprises. In this opening to Part Two, he gives us a military historian’s depiction of the Battle of Waterloo. Julie Rose’s copious notes tell us that Hugo visited the site of the...
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Oct.15.2009
Those who have only a peripheral acquaintance with Les Misérables will find it surprising that its Book One opens, not with Jean Valjean, but with one Charles Myriel, the Bishop of Digne. Myriel has descended from a well-to-do French family, but his devotion to God has caused him to shun all...
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Sep.12.2009
Excerpt from MY MOTHER BIDS ME, a novel of Jane Austen's England on the Eve of Waterloo. (New edition of novel first published in 1984)
All afternoon fugitives from the embattled plains beyond the Forêt de Soignes flocked into Brussels,...
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Aug.25.2009
Excerpt from MY MOTHER BIDS ME, a Novel of Jane Austen's England on the Eve of Waterloo.
Roisin scampered off down the lane and sat in a niche on the packhorse bridge to read her letter. Water sparkled and chuckled over the pebbles way...
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