November 2015 – Martin Rose

Biffy, the Bombers and Disorganised Morale

November 17, 2015

A year or so ago I was very struck by an account of the way aeroplanes navigated across the desert between ‘Amman and Baghdad in the 1920s. There was a furrow ploughed into the land surface all the way, and the pilot simply followed it. This struck me as quite funny, an unexpectedly primitive way … More Biffy, the Bombers and Disorganised Morale

Comets, eggs and haemorrhoids

November 4, 2015

Several years ago I wrote a novella for Christmas about a series of rather fantastic happenings in Rome, which involved a long-dead astrologer, a papal election, the appearance of a comet, and five long-buried Philistine artefacts – the five golden haemorrhoids of the Second Book of Samuel, since you ask. (If you didn’t know that … More Comets, eggs and haemorrhoids