by Jack Woodville London | Dec 30, 2010 | Articles
Let’s start with fiction. To be blunt, there just isn’t enough good fiction. There is some rumble afoot that my next novel, due out whenever, should be named The Da Vinci Girl Who Kicked Harry Potter’s Vampire. Pay attention here —... by Jack Woodville London | Dec 23, 2010 | Articles
What’s the perfect gift? That is the question, isn’t it, especially if it is better to give than to receive. But what’s the answer? Where to begin? What to do? So, I began with ‘Where to go to shop? — online, a store, a... 
by Jack Woodville London | Dec 22, 2010 | On the Nightstand
Fortress Rabaul, (2008) by Bruce Gamble, is a riveting history of two years of unrelenting conflict in the South Pacific triangle of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and New Britain Island, on which the port, village, and Japanese military base of Rabaul was... 
by Jack Woodville London | Dec 9, 2010 | Articles
It’s hard to imagine, but I knew someone who knew someone who lived through the colonization of Texas, during the battle of the Alamo, Texas statehood (twice), the Civil War and Reconstruction, the first Great Depression (1876), and the taking of Hawaii, the... 
by Jack Woodville London | Nov 30, 2010 | Articles
Several years ago we were away, in our adoptive home-away-from-home, when Alice conked out one afternoon. The details are fuzzy – too many museums, too many hours wandering around London’s sights, jet lag, maybe Portobello Road had wiped her out – but we...
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