Tuesday, 30 December 2025

To Munich And Berlin



"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, now finds Max on a luxury train, to spy on the Nazis as an "ambassador" for Il Duce, Mussolini. As usual, things keep going wrong, but at least Max is seeing a lot of Europe at the moment.

While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have two-thirds of the book to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it. I read a lot on my trip to Scotland yesterday

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Pop Muzik" by M



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Sunday, 28 December 2025

Italian Girls


"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, now finds Max in favour with Il Duce, Mussolini, while also carrying on with his wife and mistresses. All the sex is implied. The text jumps from Italy pre-Second World War to Ladbroke Grove in the 1960s.

While I will never read these books again, it has still been a strange and interesting journey. I still have four hundred pages to go.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it. I read a lot on my trip to Scotland yesterday

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Italian Girls" by Rod Stewart



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Centurion



"The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock, the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, now finds Max and his new companion, Maddy Butters, in Rome, and I have passed a hundred pages, so I am a sixth of the way through. Max states he is a Fascist first and an American second, even though he is Russian. He is about to meet Il Duce, Mussolini.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it. I read a lot on my trip to Scotland yesterday

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Roman Wall Blues" by Alex Harvey



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  2. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  3. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  4. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  5. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  6. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Sunday, 14 December 2025

Venice

 "The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock , the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, now finds Max and his new companion, Maddy Butters, in Venice. Max has decided that Venetians are not human but are the last inhabitants of Atlantis.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it. I read a lot on my trip to Scotland yesterday

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Early Roman Kings" by Bob Dylan



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  2. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  3. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  4. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  5. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  6. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Monday, 8 December 2025

Majorca


 

Just restarted this after being on holiday in Settle and "The Vengeance Of Rome" by Michael Moorcock , the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, is started. Now Max has landed on a yacht in Majorca but I am not sure where this is going. The timeline constantly flips from the 1920s to the Second World War to the 1960s.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it. I read a lot on my trip to Scotland yesterday

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Majorca" by John Cooper Clarke



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  2. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  3. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  4. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  5. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  6. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Saturday, 29 November 2025

The Vengeance Of Rome

"Jerusalem Commands" by Michael Moorcock is complete, and "The Vengeance Of Rome", the fourth and final part of the Pyat quartet, is started. When I started the first book in May this year, the first chapter was forty pages and the start of a difficult but worthwhile read, but this one is on Chapter five in the first five pages, and has now settled into the normal format. I am relieved to have made the final book, a second-hand Tyneside library copy from Amazon.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it. I read a lot on my trip to Scotland yesterday

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "The Promise" by When In Rome.



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  2. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  3. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  4. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  5. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  6. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Hoping To Fly


"Jerusalem Commands" by Michael Moorcock now finds Max still stuck in Marrakesh (or Marrakech as he spells it), and Ms Von Bek has taken up with the ruling psychopathic Pasha, but is still having sex with Max. Max is building a flying machine called "Bee" using a car engine to power it, supplied by his friend Mr Mix., and escape to Tangier.

I am still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it. I read a lot on my trip to Scotland yesterday

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Learn To Fly" by The Foo Fighters



Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

  1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
  2. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
  3. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
  4. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
  5. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
  6. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
  7. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
  8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
  9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram