A Dead Good Blog

I write as someone who knows about the effects of cliffhangers on a person’s life. I was an Archer’s addict. How many Sunday mornings were ...

It may be the fault of that famously flimsy veil between the worlds of the living and the dead which is reputed to exist over Hallowe'en...

This is a very exciting year for The Imperial Hotel, Blackpool: on Thursday 22nd June, the most iconic seafront building will turn back the ...

While researching Charles Dickens, I had an epiphany.  Not necessarily of the most positive nature.  I realised that I am a closet rail enth...

I went to the library, To find some information ‘Bout this bloke called Dickens, And the time of impoveration  So I sat down in ...

by Ian Marchant My friend Charles Palliser, a fine literary novelist who has sold books on a commercial scale (notably his masterful ‘ Quinc...