Richard Strachan

Bit of a detour from my current Iliad-centric reading: an old favourite, The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll.

Mobility Anatomy of a mild injury

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New Substack

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A copy of The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan

The only book you need for #Worldbookday (and every day thereafter)...

Currently reading The Mighty Dead by Adam Nicolson: absolutely thrilling, one of the best works of non-fiction I've read for ages.

It's a fascinating article, I think bands/musicians really are an entry point to literature for loads of people.

‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace Paley

I'm surprised no one mentions Manic Street Preachers here: their first album essentially provided my teenage reading list.

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Always an exciting moment when you're sent the final cover spread for your book!

"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..."

Massive ship at Leith docks today

Moronic Lord of the Flies discourse now as irritating to me as moronic Wuthering Heights discourse.

Lord of the Flies is wrong about humanity

"Novelists quite often stack the cards to ensure the results they want."

Yes... that does tend to be the way it works...

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Totally agree, big fan of this

If France could lead the world with Minitel in the 1980s, surely Europe can free itself from Silicon Valley’s shackles now? | Alexander Hurst Back then, France punched above its weight when it came to tech. The EU needs it to rediscover its taste for the cutting edge, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

This is fascinating; I'd never even heard of the Minitel.

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Richard Strachan: Night Fire Join Richard Strachan as he chats about his new book, Night Fire

Book launch incoming!

The launch for my second novel, Night Fire, will be at Blackwell's Edinburgh on 23 April. Comments and shares very much appreciated, but don't worry - this won't be the last you hear of it...

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Why BBC Lord Of The Flies myth about human barbarity is so wrong The idea that humans are innately awful is a philosophy of fools

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Yet another failure to understand that a work of fiction does not necessarily mean the author is promoting a thesis.

Yet more copies of The Unrecovered signed @goldenharebooks.bsky.social!

All the best!

Absolutely fascinating interview with Prof Tony Pollard in the Herald today. I was lucky enough to be taught by Tony on the first year of the Battlefield & Conflict Archaeology Masters degree, at Glasgow, in 2006/07, a genuinely transformative experience for me.

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Herodotus, Ondaatje Current reading

New Substack post, on Herodotus and Ondaatje's The English Patient:

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Bird(s) in the hand.

Thought I'd flag this up again - not long now until it's published in April...

A short appreciation of the late Allan Massie:

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The eternal life of Jeff Buckley | The Observer The singer’s mother Mary Guibert on guarding her son’s musical legacy – and why she believes now is the right time to tell his story on film

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Had a nasty turn reading this - Jeff Buckley would have been 60 this year ...

A book review of Through the Hedgerow RPG, rustic fantasy, ergodic literature, folk horror, etc
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