Haarlson Phillipps

After Goya has received a 3-star review over at Goodreads . I'm really very pleased - the Goodreads community is mainly made up of s...

Riots are an expression of rage. Rage is an expression of thwarted desire. Riots are prompted by the refusal of some to engage with the si...

My novel, After Goya , now has a 5-star review over at Amazon US : "A Gripping Read. After Goya is engaging from page one and takes...

I'll be in the UK when you're reading this. Visiting the North to attend the wedding of a very good friend's daughter. We ...

My non-fiction writing alter-ego has had two articles published in The Guardian . Go HERE and HERE if you'd like to find out about i...

After Goya has received a first review on Amazon UK. Four stars no less.  "... original in its theme, coherent in its writing, with ...

OK, let's get two things straight before we discuss the details. The difference in this match was not Messi versus Rooney - the differ...

I'm pleased and proud to announce that my novel, After Goya , is now available as an ebook in several formats. The global price is $2.9...

Yesterday my daughter was walking through Oxford town centre when she received a call on her mobile from Amazon. (US? UK? Germany? France? W...

Called into an exhibition at La Pedrera , you know, as you do, on the way home from work, the other day. Really glad I did. As I say,  j...

Undergraduates who have had the benefit of a private or independent secondary education should pay FULL market-rate fees (i.e. cost plus mar...

In October last year Barcelona, INK published one of my short stories. The magazine - Barcelona's only literary magazine in English - (T...

Exhibition opening at Gràcia Arts Project last night. Didn't go. Instead went along to a regular meeting of an English creative ...

Photography exhibition preview at the Maritime Museum in Drassanes last night.  Names of contributors you'll likely recognise include Sa...

Have been active on the Trip Advisor Barcelona travel forum over the past month or so - perhaps a more socially useful form of procrastinat...

Ian Rankin was in town last week. He was here to receive the Pepe Carvalho prize. The prize, named after Manuel Vázquez Montalbán 's d...

Scott Pack, over at Me and My Big Mouth has very generously given my novel After Goya a positive mention. You can read my comments on this...

ASSAULT GUARDS, CIVIL GUARDS & CARABINEROS or the publicly funded, private rearguard armies of the Republic's Stalinist lackeys. Par...

Part Four of a series of six posts. SEE previous posts here , here , and here . OK, let's put Orwell's caveat in place first: It wi...

When noting that sign-language was proscribed by Franco during the early years of his dictatorship in this post I recalled the Carlos Saura...