As Christmas 1843 approaches the weather is unseasonably warm and Charles Dickens's career has stalled. Martin Chuzzlewit's reception has been lukewarm and his publishers are hounding him for a new and marketable book, though he is suffering from an acute case of a writer's block. To make matters worse, his wife is about to throw... Continue Reading →
The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
Shortly after midnight on April 15, 1912 as the Titanic was sinking into the icy waters of the North Atlantic, she was far from being alone on the vast ocean, although it would have seemed so to her passengers and crew. In fact, she was in the middle of a busy shipping lane, and no... Continue Reading →