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…

The birthday of the poet Jónas Hallgrímsson, the 16th of November, marks the Day of the Icelandic Language.  There are supposedly more people  speakers of Klingon than Icelandic, but somehow I doubt that there are a great many native Klingon speakers around, while around a third of a million Icelanders speak their strange throwback to…