In July 2008 I attended the 34th International Byron Conference which was held at St Andrews from the 14th to 18th July. As usual it takes me 6 months to a year to get around to writing anything about it! My only point of comparison for this event was the Exeter Trollope Conference. The Byron …
Month: February 2009
St Hilda’s 2007
I spent the weekend of 17th to 19th August at the annual St Hilda's Mystery and Crime Weekend in Oxford. This is the third time I have attended - my report on the 2006 weekend can be found below and includes a general introduction. The following report is wholly subjective - in no way am …
St Hilda’s 2006
Another old conference report. Another very belated entry this time on the subject of the St Hilda's Crime and Mystery Conference 2006, which was held, as usual, at St Hilda's College, Oxford in August 2006. It is quite difficult to describe St Hilda's ; an excellent attempt is made at... http://www.crimespreemag.com/sthildas.html I went in 2001 …
Trollope Conference 2006
I have decided that although my old blog (http://nickhay.blog-city.com/) will remain in a read-only format I will transfer a few posts here before the end of February. The selection is fairly arbitrary but there aren't many 'amateur' reports on this Conference around! >>Way back in the heatwave of last July (2006) I attended a Conference …
Mysteries of the Year 2008
(Another transfer but pretty relevant and recent.....) Delayed due to illness but here it is. My reviewing for rte means that I can for the first time provide a reasonably contemporary list of the 'top 5' new mysteries which I read in 2008 - and as I love a list here goes..... 1) Reginald Hill - …
My Blogging Philosophy
This is something I wrote in July 2007 but reading it back it seems quite as valid now as the day I wrote it and will explain my philosophy of blogging to anybody who is starting here.... Another diary blog, covering in haphazard form the past few months. I have in fact at various times …
Moving Blogs
I am contemplating moving Blog sites as I cannot see the point of paying for something when I can get at least as good a service for free! The problem of course is the large amount of material which I have posted on my existing blog. The solution would seem to be making a payment …
Moving Toyshop 