Lord Byron, also known as George Gordon Byron and 6th Baron Byron, was a famous English poet. He was known to enjoy adventure. He was extremely fond of exercise and sports. He loved swimming and once swam from Sestos in Modern Gallipoli in European Turkey to Abydos in Upper Egypt. He mastered a wide variety of …
Lord Byron – An all-round sportsperson
Lord Byron, also known as George Gordon Byron and 6th Baron Byron, was a famous English poet. He was known to enjoy adventure. He was extremely fond of exercise and sports. He loved swimming and once swam from Sestos in Modern Gallipoli in European Turkey to Abydos in Upper Egypt. He mastered a wide variety of …
Sherlock Holmes died … then he was alive again!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes in 1887 and the fictional detective became a phenomenon. When Doyle attempted to kill Holmes in 1893 in the story The Final Problem, there was a public outrage. In 1903, Doyle was forced to bring Holmes to life through his story The Adventure of the Empty House.
Remembering Agatha Christie
‘Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.’ – Agatha Christie, An Autobiography Agatha Christie is a name that never misses when it comes to detective novels. Regarded as ‘the undoubted queen of her profession’, Christie took crime …
Gadsby: Fifty thousand words without an ‘e’
There are very, very few words in the English language where vowels aren’t used. And ‘e’ is the most commonly used letter in the English language. There are 21 ‘e’s in the previous two sentences alone! Then, imagine how much difficult it must have been to write Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel without the letter ‘e’! Except for …
Lord Byron – An all-round sportsperson
Lord Byron, also known as George Gordon Byron and 6th Baron Byron, was a famous English poet. He was known to enjoy adventure. He was extremely fond of exercise and sports. He loved swimming and once swam from Sestos in Modern Gallipoli in European Turkey to Abydos in Upper Egypt. He mastered a wide variety of …