Michael Crichton: The Great Train Robbery

I’ve recently been reading Michael Crichton’s historical novel The Great Train Robbery [Random House, 1975]. “In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Rich, handsome and ingenious, Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly […]

Railway porn and Forbury Gardens

First off, you will notice that there is no comma between ‘railway’ and ‘porn’ in the post title… this is not a grammatical error and is intentional. Railway porn. If you’re not a geeky type, then you mayn’t appreciate this as much as you may have been hoping. I could try and doll it up […]