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Allan Quatermain

On January 26, 2018 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, heroic deeds6 Comments

by Henry Rider Haggard 'I have seen beautiful women in my day, and am no longer thrown into transports at the sight of a pretty face; but language fails me when I try to give some idea of the blaze of loveliness that then broke upon us in the persons of these sister Queens.' This …

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Farewell to South Africa

On November 22, 2016 By Andrew G LockhartIn Scotland, TravelLeave a comment

[I wrote this piece a while ago, an imagining of my mother's experience on leaving her childhood home. I hope you enjoy it.] The taxi pulled up on the quayside. From my seat in the back, I looked up at the massive hull of the ship in the berth. Now that the time had come, …

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Confession Time

On September 5, 2013 By Andrew G LockhartIn Books, Historical Fiction, Writing and Publishing11 Comments

Readers of my recent blogs may have noticed me dropping a name, nothing really to do with the books I was reviewing. So, just in case you're wondering, I'll drop it again - Alexandre Dumas - one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived. And for me, as a devotee of historical fiction, he is …

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