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A book is fundamentally an act of chronological defiance, forging an unbreakable…

The Lady-upon-Avon

August 12, 2026
To keep the balance of her world, Anne built a quiet, impenetrable life of her own. She did not define herself by the poetry he sent home or the rumours that drifted down the road from the capital. She became the true master of New Place.…

The Ghosts-upon-Avon (Part 1)

‘We shall never know whether Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Sir William Stanley, Anne Hathaway, even Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen herself, or anyone else wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Still, if they did not, they missed a great, unique opportunity to…

The Indie Song of the Cicadas

July 19, 2026
There is a tragic beauty in this literary ecosystem. To spend months or years crafting a universe, knowing it may only ever be read by a handful of people, perhaps family, a few loyal friends, and a stranger across an ocean, is a pure, unadulterated form of devotion…

Unclothed

We have to start with a vital distinction famously drawn by art historian Sir Kenneth Clark: the ‘nude’ is an idealisation, a means of affirming ultimate perfection, and a tangible vision of ideal beauty, though varying from culture to culture and from era to era. While to be naked means…

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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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Books of Our Continent

From the quiet shelves of forty-four national archives and ancient university libraries to the cosy corners of independent bookstores and modest home…

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