Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 240 )

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Five: Updated Dickens

  

  5th DecemberMrs Scrooge: A Christmas Tale by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Posy Simmonds (Picador, 2009)Mrs Scrooge and a rather jolly ghostA fresh spin on a... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Four: More Food

  

  4th DecemberMincemeat, a poem by Elizabeth GouldFull of Christmas CheerThis poem is another extract from The Book of Christmas, mentioned on the 2nd December an... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Three: Letters

  

  3rd DecemberThe Father Christmas Letters by JRR Tolkien, edited by Baillie Tolkien (George Allen Unwin Ltd, 1976). I have had this book for many years,... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Two: Pudding

  

  2nd December A rather rotund pudding…Pudding Charms, a seasonal poem by Charlotte Druitt ColeI found this poem in a children’s poetry collection The Book of... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day One: Dickens

  

  1st DecemberChristmas with Dickens A Christmas Treeby Charles Dickensillustrated by HM Brock (Guild Publishing 1969, 1986)What better way to begin our Advent... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 BOOKS

• Christmas on the Landing: An Advent Announcement

  

  It can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention that we are edging ever closer to a certain celebratory time of the year, though I refuse to pay too much attentio... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Treasure in the In-Tray: Ghost Light

  

  As anyone who follows me on Twitter will be aware, this week I unearthed Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light (Harvill Secker 2010) from my in-tray where it has been... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: "The Go-Between" by L.P.Hartley

  

  I said that I would return to the topic of The Go-Between and so I have (with a certain amount of delay admittedly). I enjoyed the novel a great deal, which is... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Interview: Paul Anthony Shortt Author of ‘Locked Within’

  

  The Author…Now as promised last week, here are the answers to a few questions that I put to first time author Paul on the publication of his urban fantasy,... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Advance Notice of a Landing Guest: Paul Anthony Shortt

  

  Next week (on the 15th November to be precise), I will be entertaining a second guest on my literary landing. Paul Anthony Shortt will be submitting himself to ... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Another Landing ‘quick post’:For Anyone Who Has Been Wond...

  Another Landing ‘quick post’:For anyone who has been wondering whether I will ever finish reading the Landing Eight pile, I would like to announce that finally ... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Quick Press: New Literary Travel Guide from Oxygen BooksA...

  

  Quick Press: New literary travel guide from Oxygen Books Another delicious literary guide… This is by way of a brief ‘thank you’ to Malcolm at Oxygen Books for... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The End of Summer: Sculpture at the Bots

  

  You know that the end of summer draws near, when the annual Sculpture in Context exhibition opens at the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. Now in its... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Zombies on the Landing…

  

  Be afraid,,,, I know that having two blog posts so close together might be cluttering up your in-boxes a little, but inspiration gave me a gentle poke while I... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2012 ARTS & CRAFTS, HOME

• October: Open House and Other Stuff

  

  I have been bowling merrily along with Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) lately (and feeling terribly virtuous for reading my book club novel to boot) and have... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Footnote: #LetterMo Author While Having a Quick Browse In...

  

  Footnote: #LetterMo authorWhile having a quick browse in the recently returned section of the library last Thursday, I spotted a novel by Mary Robinette Kowal,... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Past is Another Country: Or, out and About for Culture Night

  

  I am truly sorry about the miss-use of a quotation in the title and have no excuse except that it just popped into my head and it seemed a shame to waste it. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Footnote

  :Now that I have discovered the handy ‘aside’ post facility I can jot down snippets as I think of them!I just wanted to add a link to a blog post by one of my... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Richard III in the News

  News Update: Anyone who has read my previous post (in June) on Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time will know of my longstanding interest in Richard III and... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Planning Culture Night: Another Landing Field Trip

  

  Culture Night is still a few more days away and already I am anticipating an evening of cultural entertainment. I do realize that the Landing Project should be... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE