Kit Ward aka JP Sorel

I was intrigued by the news that Dr Linda ManyGuns, the Associate Vice-President of Indigenization and Decolonization at Canada’s...

by Kit Ward

I try to keep up with the modern world, I really do. I read the news headlines every morning,...

by Kit Ward

I made my first post-Covid trip abroad last month, to Alicante in southern Spain. It was a family visit...

by Kit Ward

Not long ago, David Baddiel, the actor and comedian, told his Twitter followers he was ‘rereading’ Middlemarch. In a...

by Kit Ward

In his history of crime fiction, Bloody Murder, Julian Symons called it ‘the detective story to end detective stories…...

by Kit Ward

Long ago, when I was young and impressionable, I read a profile of the novelist Graham Greene. His writing...

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English Heritage caused a kerfuffle recently when it updated its website entry about Enid Blyton. EH’s interest in Blyton...

by Kit Ward

My first blog, These Islands, was five years old last month. Though it’s not exactly my first blog —...

by Kit Ward