Going back a few years… When I went to Iceland back in the last century, before mobile phones, email and social media, even before faxes, reading wasn’t always easy. English books were fairly few and far between. It didn’t take long to get through pretty much the whole of the local library’s English-language shelves, and…

It’s not every day that a novel by the mysterious O. Huldumann shows up. There have for years been tantalising rumours of the great man’s lost work. Now it turns out the rumours are true. There really was more Huldumann out there in the wild.  The dog-eared typescript of The Island of Lies is thought…

It’s the anniversary of the death of Hector Hugh Munro, better known as Saki, who was killed by a sniper on the 13th of November 1916 near Beaumont Hamel. As well as being the incomparable master of the short story, the man is something of a conundrum. There’s a great deal about him that isn’t…