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# The Story Bazaar

A feast for the imagination

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- [Blog](http://thestorybazaar.com/blog/) - What's on in London, what to see in southern Spain and lots of stuff abut words, books and writing.
- [The Plague story continues.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-plague-story-continues/) - The plot of a new novel collides with reality.
- [Plague - Stranger than fiction](http://thestorybazaar.com/plague-stranger-than-fiction/) - Eighteen months ago I began writing a novel. Today I watch as its plot plays out before my eyes.
- [Impressionists in London](http://thestorybazaar.com/impressionists-in-london/) - What's on in London. A review of Tate Britain's Winter exhibition.
- [The Godmother's Tale](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-godmothers-tale/) - The story behind the stories Reconquista and The Silver Rings
- [It's all about the money....](http://thestorybazaar.com/its-all-about-the-money/) - How very wealthy people seek to make even more money, by destroying the future of ordinary people.
- [New web-site goes live!!](http://thestorybazaar.com/new-web-site-goes-live/) - My new web-site can now be found at www.jandmanderson.com. Those of you who want to receive alerts when a new blog comes out, please click on the 'Follow' button at the right hand side of the site. The Story Bazaar site will still exist, but will, to an extent, be mothballed. So, if you want
- [Happy New Year! Front Page News!](http://thestorybazaar.com/happy-new-year-front-page-news/) - The Story Bazaar will be closing in January 2019. Find out where its writers will be blogging in 2019.
- [My favourite blogs](http://thestorybazaar.com/my-favourite-blogs/) - Favourite articles from 2018.
- [A Major Incident](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-major-incident/) - Manufactured crisis over 200 refugees back-fires.
- [The Guitar in Time](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-guitar-in-time/) - Santiago Lara presents an appreciation of guitarristas past, as part of Festival de Jerez 2018. Brilliant set. Read review here.
- [Mother of Parliaments](http://thestorybazaar.com/mother-of-parliaments/) - A trip round the Houses of Parliament.
- [Ghost-writing](http://thestorybazaar.com/ghost-writing-2/) - What is ghost-writing and how to do it.
- [White Horses](http://thestorybazaar.com/white-horses/) - A visit to the Real Escuela del Arte Equestre and a Palace too!
- [The Last Days of Rome (Brexit)](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-last-days-of-rome-brexit/) - Unprecedented times, just like at the end of the Republic.....
- [Not fit for office?](http://thestorybazaar.com/not-fit-for-office/) - Why the UK needs an overhaul of what constitutes fitness to hold office.
- [Bethlehem...](http://thestorybazaar.com/bethlehem/) - ...or Belen in Spanish inspires some exquisite model-making.
- [Saturday Night](http://thestorybazaar.com/saturday-night/) - In old Jerez town and the zambombas are in full swing. Read more here.
- [I Am Ashurbanipal, King of the World](http://thestorybazaar.com/i-am-ashurbanipal-king-of-the-world/) - The British Museum's Winter exhibition reviewed.
- [Vox](http://thestorybazaar.com/vox/) - Across Europe right-wing, populist parties are gaining ground, as economies slow and times become more unsettled and old, deeply ingrained prejudices and misconceptions re-surface. So it's unsurprising that it's happening too in Spain. Vox is a new Spanish party founded in 2013, but registering on the wider political scene only when it succeeded in electing
- [Unravelling fortunes....](http://thestorybazaar.com/unravelling-fortunes/) - What are the spearheads of Leave up to now.....?
- [Dramatic Progress](http://thestorybazaar.com/dramatic-progress/) - At the National Theatre Autumn/Winter 2018/19 two free exhibitions on women's suffrage and on stage set modelling and use in design.
- [End Game](http://thestorybazaar.com/end-game/) - Levels of toxicity rise as some main players fall away and w reach an end-game.
- [Nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon](http://thestorybazaar.com/nothing-left-remarkable-beneath-the-visiting-moon/) - A firs rate production of Anthony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre. Coming very soon to a cinema near you.
- [What is RICO and why is it important?](http://thestorybazaar.com/what-is-rico-and-why-is-it-important/) - Is it time to break up Facebook and how might that happen?
- [Edward Burne-Jones](http://thestorybazaar.com/edward-burne-jones/) - Review of Tate Britain's big Winter exhibition.
- [The Silver Rings is Out Now](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-silver-rings-is-out-now/) - Find it on-line at Amazon, Kindle, Smashwords and other on-line retailers. £8.99 paperback, £2.99 'e' book.
- [Walking Burne-Jones](http://thestorybazaar.com/walking-burne-jones/) - Fabulous walk through Chelsea, Pimlico and Victoria with the Tate, exploring the works of the artist and the myths and legends behind them.
- [Visual Feast](http://thestorybazaar.com/visual-feast/) - FREE exhibition of exquisite and precious objects In the V & A alongside newly created jewellery using cutting edge technology.
- [Democracy IV](http://thestorybazaar.com/democracy-iv/) - Elections, elections, elections. Will the lurch to the right continue?
- [Last Hope Island....](http://thestorybazaar.com/last-hope-island/) - and Auntie's War. Two new books about different aspects of WWII (neither of which will appeal to Brexiteers )
- [Launch time](http://thestorybazaar.com/launch-time/) - Features, articles, interviews and on-line advertising for The Silver Rings.
- [For 'think tank' read 'lobby group'.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/for-think-tank-read-lobby-group/) - Institutions which seek to influence the democratic dialogue but are not transparent about their own backers have no place in the discussion.
- [Festival de Jerez 2019](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-de-jerez-2019/) - The 2019 Programme is out and next year it coincides with the Caraval de Cadiz.
- [Final Touches to The Silver Rings](http://thestorybazaar.com/final-touches-to-the-silver-rings/) - Book formatting and printers costs, cover design and interior images, proof reading - all last minute activities before publishing a book.
- [Bonfire Night, what's that about then?](http://thestorybazaar.com/bonfire-night-whats-that-about-then/) - Some cross cultural confusion when it comes to bonfires.
- [To see Ourselves as Others See Us](http://thestorybazaar.com/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us/) - What is Europe; A View from Asia, is a small FREE exhibition at the British Museum.
- [Best selling novelist comes to St Paul's](http://thestorybazaar.com/best-selling-novelist-comes-to-st-pauls/) - One of the best writers of historical fiction, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, at St Paul's Clapham on 1st December, for the Motor Neurone Disease Association
- [Art on the Underground](http://thestorybazaar.com/art-on-the-underground/) - Some of the best pieces of twentieth and twenty first century art and design FREE for all passengers
- [New sculpture at the V & A](http://thestorybazaar.com/new-sculpture-at-the-v-a/) - FREE exhibition of Rachel Kneebone's 399 Days in the Medieval and Renaissance collection.
- [Nevinson at the British Museum.... Last Chance to See](http://thestorybazaar.com/nevinson-at-the-british-museum-last-chance-to-see/) - FREE exhibition of powerful prints by the British artist CWR Nevinson until 23rd Septemer 2018.
- [Aftermath](http://thestorybazaar.com/aftermath/) - Interesting and thought provoking exhibition of European art post WWI at Tate Britain.
- [Edward Bawden](http://thestorybazaar.com/edward-bawden/) - Review of Dulwich Picture Gallery's summer show as part of their Modern British Programme. Well worth a visit.
- [The Post-human World](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-post-human-world/) - Fascinating discussion at Studio Voltaire on what it means to be human and animal, how old definitions are breaking down and how art can illuminate the debate
- [All Too Human...](http://thestorybazaar.com/all-too-human/) - Only just over two weeks left of Tate Britain's exhibition of life painting. It's worth a visit.
- [Frida Kahlo](http://thestorybazaar.com/frida-kahlo/) - The V & A's Summer exhibition. A review.
- [The Jameel Prize](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-jameel-prize/) - What's on in London for FREE. Exhibition of the finalists in the Jameel Prize, Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road.
- [Lin May Saeed - Bees](http://thestorybazaar.com/lin-may-saeed-bees/) - Fine new show at Studio Voltaire, Clapham FREE to enter
- [With apologies to Sandro Botticelli...](http://thestorybazaar.com/with-apologies-to-sandro-botticelli/) - Some playful gods...
- [Picasso 1932 - Love, Fame, Tragedy](http://thestorybazaar.com/picasso-1932-love-fame-tragedy/) - Tate Modern's Summer blockbuster exhibition. A visitor's review.
- [Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain](http://thestorybazaar.com/rhythm-reaction-the-age-of-jazz-in-britain/) - ...in Britain. Last chance to see fab FREE exhibition on Jazz art and music in the UK. Closes 22nd April 2018.
- [Royal Art](http://thestorybazaar.com/royal-art/) - Go and catch the Royal Academy's excellent and unique exhibition on the collection of Charles I before it ends on 15th April and is dispersed across the globe. Review.
- [Festival Art 2018](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-art-2018/) - What's on Spring 2018. FREE exhibitions in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain for the 2018 Festival and beyond.
- [Conversation at the Horse Hospital](http://thestorybazaar.com/conversation-at-the-horse-hospital/) - Jeremy Deller and Scott King talk about what lead to Brexit and Scott's show Welcome to Saxnot.
- [Political Pots](http://thestorybazaar.com/political-pots/) - What's on in London. Current interesting and FREE exhibition at the British Museum.
- [East End Vernacular](http://thestorybazaar.com/east-end-vernacular/) - Small but perfectly formed exhibition celebrating 20th century painters of the East End of London at Abbott and Holder, Museum Street, WC1A
- [Rachel Whiteread](http://thestorybazaar.com/rachel-whiteread/) - Rachel Whiteread is one of a handful of modern British artists whose name is known beyond the modern-art loving population, to the wider general public. British enthusiasm for modern and/or conceptual art has definitely increased in the early years of the 21st century, with Tate Modern now the third most visited site in the capital (
- [The Foundling Hospital](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-foundling-hospital/) - What to see in London. Fantastic little known museum in central London. Britain's first children's charity, art and music all in one place.
- [Welcome to Saxnot](http://thestorybazaar.com/welcome-to-saxnot/) - Brilliant art installation about nostalgia for a 'lost' Britain and how it might be manipulated. FREE at Studio Voltaire.
- [Falling off a ladder....](http://thestorybazaar.com/falling-off-a-ladder/) - How Baroque master painter, Murillo, is portrayed in the very good Gallery de Belles Artes, Cadiz.
- [Rainbow Aphorisms](http://thestorybazaar.com/rainbow-aphorisms/) - Public art project in Clapham and Brixton, the work of David McDiarmid.
- [Vittorio Scarpati & Cookie Mueller](http://thestorybazaar.com/vittorio-scarpati-cookie-mueller/) - What's on in London. FREE Exhibition of 'Putti's Pudding' the final project of Scarpati and Mueller at Studio Voltaire Clapham
- [Queer British Art 1861 - 1967](http://thestorybazaar.com/queer-british-art-1861-1967/) - In celebration of fifty years of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality Tate Britain's exhibition looks at 'Queer' British art from 1861 to 1967. We went along last Friday. I wondered just what form the exhibition would take, would it be paintings of 'queer' subjects, (to use the exhibition's own word) or of art by 'queer'
- [The Precarity Centre](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-precarity-centre/) - Precarity (n) - a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat. Art duo, They are Here ( Helen Walker and Harun Morrison ) last week launched The Precarity Centre, their latest project and the beginning of their year-long residency at Studio Voltaire, Clapham. One
- [The Queens House](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-queens-house/) - Fabulous FREE day out in London. Fine art, naval heroics and the night sky in Greenwich
- [Fighting for Peace...](http://thestorybazaar.com/fighting-for-peace/) - Exhibition on anti-war protest in the 20th century. Review.
- [Hokusai](http://thestorybazaar.com/hokusai/) - Review of current popular exhibition at the British Museum.
- [Carol Robertson - Stars at Flowers](http://thestorybazaar.com/carol-robertson-stars-at-flowers/) - Abstract artist Carol Robertson's new exhibition at Flowers until 3rd June.
- [Arts & Crafts](http://thestorybazaar.com/arts-crafts/) - What's on in London? FREE museum and gallery devoted to William Morris. Worth a visit.
- [The Life and Death of Miss Dupont...](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-life-and-death-of-miss-dupont/) - Whats On in London Spring 2017, charming show by Anthony Green at the RA
- [America After the Fall](http://thestorybazaar.com/america-after-the-fall/) - Review of the Royal Academy's new exhibition of American painting in the 1930s.
- [Local Art](http://thestorybazaar.com/local-art/) - Whats on in London, FREE Amelie von Wulffen exhibition, Studio Voltaire, Clapham Writers
- [Revolution: Russian Art 1917 - 1932](http://thestorybazaar.com/revolution-russian-art-1917-1932/) - Review of the Royal Academy's latest blockbuster exhibition opening 13 February.
- [Paul Nash](http://thestorybazaar.com/paul-nash/) - Review of Tate Britain's major show for Winter 2016/17
- [Anselm Kiefer](http://thestorybazaar.com/anselm-kiefer/) - Whats on in London FREE modern art exhibition
- [Maggi Hambling](http://thestorybazaar.com/maggi-hambling/) - What's on in London and FREE New Year 2017. British Museum exhibition of drawings by Maggi Hambling.
- [On the wings of imagination](http://thestorybazaar.com/on-the-wings-of-imagination/) - On Wednesday I went to Java, Bali and Indonesia by way of the magic carpet which lies to the north of Great Russell Street. For the first time ever in my experience there were so many people wishing to visit the British Museum that Museum Security was preventing immediate access at the front gate -
- [Last Chance to see wonderful FREE Anthony Gormley](http://thestorybazaar.com/last-chance-to-see-wonderful-free-anthony-gormley/) - What's on in London this weekend. FREE Anthony Gormley at White Cube, read review
- [Rest and its Discontents](http://thestorybazaar.com/rest-and-its-discontents/) - FREE exhibition at Mile End Art Pavilion under 30th October 2016. Review.
- [Salt and Stones; Edward Burtynsky](http://thestorybazaar.com/salt-and-stones-edward-burtynsky/) - What's on in London. Free exhibition of photography at Flowers Gallery, Hoxton
- [Collaborators](http://thestorybazaar.com/collaborators/) - Artistic collaborations; on a Literary Festival, an audio-book and a performance
- [Stones](http://thestorybazaar.com/stones/) - The Musee Lapidaire in Narbonne, an unlooked for gem.
- [Real to Reel...](http://thestorybazaar.com/real-to-reel/) - Review of the new exhibition of War Cinema at the Imperial War Museum, London
- [Switch House Exhibits](http://thestorybazaar.com/switch-house-exhibits/) - What's on in London. Free art exhibitions, the Switch House, Tate Modern
- [Last Chance to 'Daydream with Kubrick'](http://thestorybazaar.com/last-chance-to-daydream-with-kubrick/) - What's on in London. Exhibition of art works inspired by or in response to the films of director, Stanley Kubrick.
- [New Tate Modern](http://thestorybazaar.com/new-tate-modern/) - What to do in London. Visit the new Tate Modern extension on Bankside. Entrance free.
- [Georgia O'Keeffe](http://thestorybazaar.com/georgia-okeeffe/) - Review of Tate Modern's big 2016 summer exhibition.
- [Battle Art](http://thestorybazaar.com/battle-art/) - Responses to the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, in art and writing.
- [Varnishing Day](http://thestorybazaar.com/varnishing-day/) - What's on in London. The Age o Giorgione and the Summer Exbibition at the Royal Academy.
- [Flower Fanatics](http://thestorybazaar.com/flower-fanatics/) - What's on in London. FREE exhibition at National Gallery of Dutch painting.
- [The painting formerly known as.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-painting-formerly-known-as/) - ...'The Arnolfini Wedding'. Changing interpretations give the lie to previous understanding.
- [Art](http://thestorybazaar.com/art/) - What's on in London and FREE. A tour of the standing collection at the National Gallery.
- [The Courtauld Gallery](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-courtauld-gallery/) - What's on in London. Treasures from the Middle Ages to the present day in a classical historic building on the river.
- [Down to the sea again....](http://thestorybazaar.com/down-to-the-sea-again/) - What's on in London. Set in Greenwich Park, much of the National Maritime Museum is free to visit.
- [Somerset House](http://thestorybazaar.com/somerset-house/) - What's on in London. Galleries, exhibitions, music, fountains and history on the banks of the Thames in Sir William Chambers fine building.
- [Undiscovered....](http://thestorybazaar.com/undiscovered/) - What to see in London. A house, gallery and museum that's off the tourist radar and well worth a visit.
- [Beyond Beauty](http://thestorybazaar.com/beyond-beauty/) - ...is the current exhibition at Two Temple Place ( turn right out of Temple tube station - District & Circle lines - the building is on your left about a hundred yards along, see Undiscovered.... ). Drawn from the antiquities collections of seven different UK museums, it is free to enter, daily, but closed Tuesdays.
- [Artist and Empire](http://thestorybazaar.com/artist-and-empire/) - What's on in London. Review of the new exhibition at Tate Britain.
- [Two English Masters](http://thestorybazaar.com/two-english-masters/) - What's on in London. Turner and Constable in three different places.
- [Frank Auerbach](http://thestorybazaar.com/frank-auerbach/) - What's on in London, Autumn 2015. Exhibition at Tate Britain, of works chosen by the artist, of figurative painter, Frank Auerbach.
- [The Real Thing](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-real-thing/) - What to see in London. The Cast Courts at the V & A Museum
- [Shoes; Pleasure & Pain...](http://thestorybazaar.com/shoes-pleasure-pain/) - What's on in London Autumn 2015. Review of the V & A's exhibition
- [White villages and desert](http://thestorybazaar.com/white-villages-and-desert/) - What's on in Jerez de la Frontera. Light - the white villages of Andalucia; colour - the people of the desert; and portraits, all by Tosar Granados
- [Last chance to see... Barbara Hepworth](http://thestorybazaar.com/last-chance-to-see-barbara-hepworth/) - Whats on in London. Last chance to see this amazing retrospective of the artists work
- [The Face of Britain](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-face-of-britain/) - What's on in London. National Portrait Gallery exhibition of portraits. A review.
- [Prud'hon - Napoleon's draughtsman](http://thestorybazaar.com/prudhon-napoleons-draughtsman/) - The life drawing of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
- [Eric Ravilious](http://thestorybazaar.com/eric-ravilious/) - Wonderful exhibition of 1930s English water colourist Eric Ravilious at Dulwich Picture Gallery, south London
- [Dulwich Picture Gallery - a south London gem](http://thestorybazaar.com/dulwich-picture-gallery-a-south-london-gem/) - Fine collection of Old Masters in Sir John Soane building in picturesque Dulwich Village.
- ['All of This Belongs to You' - It's Free!](http://thestorybazaar.com/all-of-this-belongs-to-you-its-free/) - Enjoy a general introduction to this amazing treasure trove of objects in South Kensington or a more detailed exploration of certain galleries, absolutely free!
- [Visit to Hertford House](http://thestorybazaar.com/visit-to-hertford-house/) - Visit Hertford House and the Wallace Collection, once home of the Marquis of Hertford and now home to a fine and decorative arts collection. Entrance free.
- [Waterloo](http://thestorybazaar.com/waterloo/) - June 18th 2015 is the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo, so pay a visit to Apsley House, home of the 1st Duke of Wellington and go up the Wellington Arch
- [Portraits of artists & friends....](http://thestorybazaar.com/portraits-of-artists-friends/) - Portraits of his fellow artists and friends by John Singer Sergeant, National Portrait Gallery in London.
- [Last chance to see.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/last-chance-to-see/) - Truth & Memory, British Art of the First World War is a small, but interesting, and instructive, exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, which I visited, while the sun was shining, earlier today. It includes remarkable paintings by Nash, Spencer and Wyndham Lewis, but also by their lesser known contemporaries, like Eric Kennington, William Orpen and
- [Spine-chilling Tales](http://thestorybazaar.com/spine-chilling-tales/) - Classic stories of the supernatural for this All Hallows Eve
- [Source Material](http://thestorybazaar.com/source-material/) - Archive film and TV shows provide great source material for writers.
- [Plus ca change, plus la meme chose](http://thestorybazaar.com/plus-ca-change-plus-la-meme-chose/) - A good story is a good story, but how we absorb it changes with technology.
- [Facebook Ads - a positive experience](http://thestorybazaar.com/facebook-ads-a-positive-experience/) - Facebook's advice to advertisers to avoid negative experiences because of ads. How does that work with Brexit?
- [A Map of the Mind](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-map-of-the-mind/) - Maps as repositories for personal memories.
- [Facebook Ads - No Politics](http://thestorybazaar.com/facebook-ads-no-politics/) - The Facebook which enables distortions and lies in the EU Referendum and Russian interference in the US Presidential election gets precious about banning books.
- [Power corrupts...](http://thestorybazaar.com/power-corrupts/) - The brain chemistry of power and how it affects those who have it...
- [Story Bazaar Book News](http://thestorybazaar.com/story-bazaar-book-news/) - The second in the Al Andalus stories - The Silver Rings - will be published next month. More about this here.
- [Myths of the Underground](http://thestorybazaar.com/myths-of-the-underground/) - Escaped alligators, cannibals on the District Line, or a disfigured phantom. who haunts the city beneath the streets?
- [Make Do and Mend](http://thestorybazaar.com/make-do-and-mend/) - The desire, among parts of the population to return to a type of austerity which they cannot have experienced.
- [Anyone Stressed?](http://thestorybazaar.com/anyone-stressed/) - What is stress and how can we deal with it? Barbara tackles modern anxiety.
- [Thrillers Historical](http://thestorybazaar.com/thrillers-historical/) - Two new historical novels. 'The Murder of Harriet Monckton' and 'The Angel's Mark'.
- [Anatomy of a Thriller](http://thestorybazaar.com/anatomy-of-a-thriller/) - What makes a good thriller? A best seller?
- [The Silver Rings](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-silver-rings/) - Drum roll! The sequel to Reconquista to be published before Christmas 2018!
- [Voting Demographics](http://thestorybazaar.com/voting-demographics/) - The latest Brexit developments
- [Brexit as Usual](http://thestorybazaar.com/brexit-as-usual/) - A stay in hospital eclipses Brexit. This is normal life.
- [Time](http://thestorybazaar.com/time/) - Different types of time and books about time.
- [Interested Parties I](http://thestorybazaar.com/interested-parties-i/) - Noun - people or organisations who are..... hoping to make money out of a situation. The Hard Brexiteers are just doing business.
- [Sponsorship Shout Out](http://thestorybazaar.com/sponsorship-shout-out/) - Sponsors the annual Clapham Book Fest needs you!
- [It's just so Clapham.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/its-just-so-clapham/) - Terrific day out at the Clapham Old Town Fair.
- [Received Truth](http://thestorybazaar.com/received-truth/) - How a public narrative is formed.
- [Technical Notes](http://thestorybazaar.com/technical-notes/) - 'Protect and Survive' for the Brexit no-deal scenario. And some jolly alternatives
- [Setting the Scene](http://thestorybazaar.com/setting-the-scene/) - Act 1 of the Final Months of Brexit Show - the Party Conferences.
- [Clapham Old Town Fair](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-old-town-fair/) - It's FREE it's in south London and it includes a stall for Clapham Writers/Book Fest. Come along and say hello.
- [Governmental Response... a play in one act](http://thestorybazaar.com/governmental-response-a-short-play-in-one-act/) - Scene; The Department for Exiting the European Union
- [Books in the Gardens of Spain](http://thestorybazaar.com/books-in-the-gardens-of-spain/) - The Alhambra and the last Emir of Granada - the subject of August's book reviews.
- [The Roman Dead](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-roman-dead/) - Thought provoking FREE exhibition at the London Museum Docklands until end October 2018.
- [Compassion and peace in Malta](http://thestorybazaar.com/compassion-and-peace-in-malta/) - Malta, Barbara the nomad's latest destination....
- [Austerity and Eminences - you heard it here first](http://thestorybazaar.com/austerity-and-eminences-you-heard-it-here-first/) - More interesting documents about Brexit - directly or indirectly.
- [Out of the Hat](http://thestorybazaar.com/out-of-the-hat/) - The final happy act from 2018's Clapham Book Festival.
- [Zanzibar](http://thestorybazaar.com/zanzibar/) - Barbara travels to the CEF School in Zanzibar.
- [The Dark Arts of Advertising](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-dark-arts-of-advertising/) - Not fictional Harry Potter but the real world. How Fake News ads may have swung the Brexit vote.
- [The Clock is Ticking....](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-clock-is-ticking/) - ..but for whom? The self-styled 'Bad Boys of Brexit', the supposedly respectable former Ministers Gove & Johnson, or for the UK, as March 31st 2019 fast approaches?
- [Sunday in the Park with Books](http://thestorybazaar.com/sunday-in-the-park-with-books/) - Are women better at writing crime/thriller novels than men? Which historical character would we write about if we could write about absolutely anyone?
- [Sunshine at the Lambeth Country Show](http://thestorybazaar.com/sunshine-at-the-lambeth-country-show/) - Clapham Book Fest goes to the Show.
- [Brockwell Park Weekend](http://thestorybazaar.com/brockwell-park-weekend/) - The weekend of 21/22 July sees Brockwell Park taken over by the FREE Lambeth Country Show. It's worth a visit.
- [A Catalan Solution?](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-catalan-solution/) - Latest developments in Spain and Catalonia.
- [The History Girls](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-history-girls/) - What's on in London. Women historical novelists talk about women in the past. FREE on Sunday 22nd July at the Lambeth Country Show.
- [Criminal proceedings](http://thestorybazaar.com/criminal-proceedings/) - Will the self-proclaimed 'Bad Boys of Brexit' become the banged up boys of Brixton gaol? Accompanied by several sitting Members of Parliament?
- [The Man Booker at 50](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-man-booker-at-50/) - So to the South Bank yesterday where the three-day Man Booker at 50 Festival was in full swing. Sixty speakers, including most Man Booker winners, were taking part in a series of literary debates, discussions and masterclasses to celebrate fifty years of the finest fiction. The full line-up was remarkable and I would have loved
- [Disenfranchisement](http://thestorybazaar.com/disenfranchisement/) - Students, expats and others - over 2m disappeared from the Electoral Roll. The Referendum franchise was disenfranchisement.
- [Democracy bought is not democracy](http://thestorybazaar.com/democracy-bought-is-not-democracy/) - For democracy to thrive we cannot allow elections to be bought. Yet evidence mounts that the result of the Referendum on EU membership in June 2016 may have been bought and paid for. This has a number of aspects, which this article seeks to summarise. First, campaign spending. This is about exceeding the spending limits (
- [Books for sale in the sunshine](http://thestorybazaar.com/books-for-sale-in-the-sunshine/) - What are the stories behind the books for sale in the sunshine of a south London Fete?
- [Summer books](http://thestorybazaar.com/summer-books/) - Some suggested reads for Summer and some book sales, on-line and in the flesh in June and July 2018.
- [Thriller](http://thestorybazaar.com/thriller/) - Thriller (n) - a novel, play or film with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage. Long before Michael Jackson. So what makes a good thriller? Jeopardy, tension, anxiety and anticipation, all designed to elicit suspenseful excitement in the reader and, of course, the desire to read on. Best-selling thriller writer James Patterson says
- [What's happened to BBC News?](http://thestorybazaar.com/whats-happened-to-bbc-news/) - The even-handedness of the BBC is under severe strain. Is their response a good long term strategy?
- [Out and about.......](http://thestorybazaar.com/out-and-about/) - What Clapham Writers did next. The Lambeth Country Show 2018.
- [All Change in Spain...](http://thestorybazaar.com/all-change-in-spain/) - The new socialist administration and it's first steps.
- [Eid Mubarak](http://thestorybazaar.com/eid-mubarak/) - Even though Barbara is no longer a true nomad, she still manages to cover large swathes of the globe. And continues to raise money for good causes. Read all about her latest adventures.
- [Another Book Festival](http://thestorybazaar.com/another-book-festival/) - The Feria del Libros in Jerez and other good thinbs to do in Summer.
- [Clapham Book Festival 2018. How'd we do?](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-book-festival-2018-howd-we-do/) - Just how the 2018 event did.... box office up....book sales up.....
- [Crime & Punishment](http://thestorybazaar.com/crime-punishment/) - No, not Dostoyevsky, but a recent discussion at the Clapham Book Festival. One attendee, a regular at such festivals, said that this was one of the best discussions he'd ever witnessed. At first glance the pairing of Mark Lawson, broadcaster, critic and author with Vaseem Khan, author and Director of Security & Crime Science at
- [Clapham Book Fest 2018 How'd it go?](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-book-fest-2018-howd-it-go/) - Recollections of delivering a small Book Festival in SW4 in 2018.
- [When is a tea towel not a tea towel?](http://thestorybazaar.com/when-is-a-tea-towel-not-a-tea-towel/) - When it's a book. Or.. how cycling gave rise to a new phenomenon.
- [Codec futures](http://thestorybazaar.com/codec-futures/) - The Kirby Codec is, yet again, being turned into a limited edition on behalf of African charity Qhebeka.
- [What happened after that?](http://thestorybazaar.com/what-happened-after-that/) - Pedro Sanchez becomes Spain's Prime Minister after a remarkable turnaround in fortunes.
- [Signs](http://thestorybazaar.com/signs/) - The romanc of road signs - especially if you're ten.
- [Big Data](http://thestorybazaar.com/big-data/) - Data protection rules introduced across the EU; too little, too late?
- [Quiz](http://thestorybazaar.com/quiz/) - ...is the title of a new play by James Graham at the Noel Coward Theatre, London. Transferring from the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, its centre piece is the incident in which a contestant on the television quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire won a million pounds, apparently by cheating, and the trial which followed.
- [The Nomad Returns](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-nomad-returns/) - Barbara is back in London. How does she find the daily responsibilities of having her own home? And what is next?
- [Running Matters](http://thestorybazaar.com/running-matters/) - The choices we make to improve our health.
- [Life is sh*t](http://thestorybazaar.com/life-is-sht/) - Barbara spends six days on Scotland's beautiful Holy Isle.
- [No Junk Mail](http://thestorybazaar.com/no-junk-mail/) - Negative letter boxes and what this says about post.
- [The Writing Game](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-writing-game/) - How to get published - the ins and outs of writing and the publishing industry. A session at Clapham Book Festival 2017 with Emma Darwin and Philip Gwyn Jones.
- [On the day.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/on-the-day/) - Everything is ready and it's the quiet before the day begins..... The Clapham Book Festival 2018.
- [And the lucky winner is...](http://thestorybazaar.com/and-the-lucky-winner-is/) - One resident of SW4 wins £50 worth of books at the Clapham Literary Festival
- [A Sunny Saturday in South London](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-sunny-saturday-in-south-london/) - One week to go before the 2018 Clapham Book Festival and everything is gearing up.
- [Breaking News. Getting published....](http://thestorybazaar.com/breaking-news-getting-published/) - ...want to know how? Come along to Clapham Book festival at 11 a.m. in Omnibus Theatre to find out. Philip Gwyn Jones (Editor at Scribe UK ) and Emma Darwin (novelist, mentor and editor) will spill the beans.
- [Maps](http://thestorybazaar.com/maps/) - Charts and cartography is more than just directing someone from A to B.
- [A Room at the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-room-at-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel/) - Deborah Moggach OBE comes to the Clapham Book Festival to talk about writing, screen writing and Hollywood.
- [A Literary Dame](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-literary-dame/) - Dame Margaret Drabble in conversation with novelist Natasha Cooper at the Clapham Literary Festival on 12th May. Tickets selling fast!
- [Monument](http://thestorybazaar.com/monument/) - How did a noun become a proper name. The search for the capital 'M' in a cycle race.
- [Authenticity and verisimilitude](http://thestorybazaar.com/authenticity-and-verisimilitude/) - What is authentic and what has verisimilitude for the writer of historical fiction?
- [Books and Walking - a Literary Trail](http://thestorybazaar.com/books-and-walking-a-literary-trail/) - Do the walk and solve the quiz. The Clapham Literary Trail put together by Clapham Writers as part of the 2018 Clapham Book Festival. It's FREE.
- [Word Force](http://thestorybazaar.com/word-force/) - The power, precision and poetry of words wrought well. Poetry at Clapham Book Festival 018 - Daljit Nagra, Cecilia Knapp and Michael Glover.
- [How to get published?](http://thestorybazaar.com/how-to-get-published/) - A leading literary agent and a publishing industry insider take would-be authors through the dos and don'ts of the publishing world at Clapham Book festival on 12th May.
- [Small Publishers](http://thestorybazaar.com/small-publishers/) - London Book Fair 2018, the Independent Publishers Guild and how small indies can ensure their books are found.
- [The Garden Museum](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-garden-museum/) - Charming little museum in St-Marys-at-Lambeth with great views by the Thames and lots of history.
- [In Another Part of the Forest](http://thestorybazaar.com/in-another-part-of-the-forest/) - What's on in London December 2015. National Theatre production of 'As You Like It' by Shakespeare.
- [Through the Letterbox](http://thestorybazaar.com/through-the-letterbox/) - Clapham Book Festival publicity which residents of SW4 are likely to see in te coming weeks.
- [The Department of Security & Crime Science](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-department-of-security-crime-science/) - Yes, it's a real University Department and, aside from bringing a cross-discipline, scientific approach to reducing crime, it holds a sceret - its very own writer of detective fiction.
- [Walls Have Ears](http://thestorybazaar.com/walls-have-ears/) - Three acclaimed writers and biographers discuss spies, history and the defence of the realm in WWII and after at Clapham Book Festival 2018.
- [Julius Caesar](http://thestorybazaar.com/julius-caesar/) - Tremendous new production at the Bridge Theatre of Shakespeare's play about populist politicians.
- [2018 Festival Round-up](http://thestorybazaar.com/2018-festival-round-up/) - Rain. That's one lasting impression of this year's Festival, as the official video below shows. But it didn't hamper our enjoyment, indeed, aside from driving us indoors - to see some rather lovely art (see Festival Art 2018) - we didn't even really notice it. That's because we were having too good a time. The Festival
- [Voice of the Earth](http://thestorybazaar.com/voice-of-the-earth/) - Review of Carpio, and friends, at Sala Paul. I might have been raining outside, but inside everyone was having a good time.
- [We interrupt this broadcast...](http://thestorybazaar.com/we-interrupt-this-broadcast/) - ....to announce that tickets for the 2018 Clapham Book Festival are ON SALE NOW. Go to https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/clapham-book-festival/ for tickets to see Dame Margaret Drabble, Deborah Moggach OBE, Mark Lawson and Vaseem Khan, Daljit Nagra and Cecilia Knapp.
- [Dancing to Different Tunes](http://thestorybazaar.com/dancing-to-different-tunes/) - Two contrasting shows, the latter, Nacida Sombre, by Rafaela Carrasco truly exceptional. Read review here.
- [Caballero and Patino at Sala Compania](http://thestorybazaar.com/caballero-and-patino-at-sala-compania/) - Our first flamenco performance of Festival de Jerez 2018 in the Sala Compania.
- [At Festival de Jerez 2018](http://thestorybazaar.com/at-festival-de-jerez-2018/) - It's Festival time of year and the town is bustling and vibrant.
- [Crimeland](http://thestorybazaar.com/crimeland/) - Ever since Oedipus initiated the search for the murderer of the previous King of Thebes we have been fascinated by crime. Mark Lawson and Vaseem Khan explore the motives, locations and moralities of crime at Clapham Book Fest 2018.
- [Snow Beast](http://thestorybazaar.com/snow-beast/) - The 'Beast from the East' spawns unlikely words and clever satire.
- [It's World Book Day 2018... why am I uneasy?](http://thestorybazaar.com/its-world-book-day-2018-why-am-i-uneasy/) - It's World Book Day tomorrow and there's a lot going on. But is this a missed opportunity and is something laudable being overtaken by commercial interests.
- [Cadiz in the rain](http://thestorybazaar.com/cadiz-in-the-rain/) - What to do in Cadiz on a rainy day - as well as watching storms.
- [The Countdown Begins](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-countdown-begins/) - Only 77 days to go until this year's Clapham Book Festival brings prize-winning novelists, biographers and poets to south London.
- [A little bit of history... with bikes](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-little-bit-of-history-with-bikes/) - The story of how a sports commentator, an actor/designer and hundreds of cycling fans around the world combined to make some progress happen.
- [A Walk on the Wild Side](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-walk-on-the-wild-side/) - Clapham Common in SW London - its wild history.
- [Common Books](http://thestorybazaar.com/common-books/) - Stories set on Clapham Common, South London
- [Chasing a Hare](http://thestorybazaar.com/chasing-a-hare/) - Today I am chasing a hare. A magical, almost mystical, creature, symbolic of changeability and fertility and associated with the Moon, hares feature in folklore and art in many different cultures around the world, it would be hard to catch. African folk tales¹ have the hare as companion to the Moon, as does Chinese legend.
- [The Girl from the North Country](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-girl-from-the-north-country/) - What's on in London. Review of Conor McPherson's acclaimed play with music by Bob Dylan as it transfers to the West End.
- [Ruta del Sol](http://thestorybazaar.com/ruta-del-sol/) - Today's race in southern Spain goes through the Sierra de Grazalema, location of Reconquista.
- [Grazalema](http://thestorybazaar.com/grazalema/) - Fabulous town to visit high up in the mountains to the east of Cadiz.
- [Benamahoma to El Bosque](http://thestorybazaar.com/benamahoma-to-el-bosque/) - Riverside walk from the source of the Rio Majaciete to El Bosque (approx 5 km) in Sierra de Grazalema, Andalucia.
- [Journey Through the Pinsapar](http://thestorybazaar.com/journey-through-the-pinsapar/) - Climbing into the Sierra de Grazalema, Andalucia.
- [Flamenco Fix](http://thestorybazaar.com/flamenco-fix/) - The 2018 Festival de Jerez is soon to begin. Though flamenco can be found in London too.
- [The Jewish Museum](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-jewish-museum/) - Little known north London museum of Judaism and the Jewish experience in Britain and Europe. Worth a visit.
- [More on Reconquista II...](http://thestorybazaar.com/more-on-reconquista-ii/) - One writer captures the ongoing process of bringing a book to publication.
- [Sympathy](http://thestorybazaar.com/sympathy/) - Logophilia with barrels.
- [Requiem](http://thestorybazaar.com/requiem/) - Funerals in English literature (some of it amusing ).
- [2018 Clapham Book Festival - a taster](http://thestorybazaar.com/2018-clapham-book-festival-a-taster/) - A quick taster of the 2018 Programme, which includes some household names and a grand dame of English lierature.
- [Festival de Jerez 2018](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-de-jerez-2018/) - The 2018 Programme and other news.
- [Review of 2017](http://thestorybazaar.com/review-of-2017/) - How Amazon is cornering the marketplace and the supply chain ( plus, how The Story Bazaar did ).
- [Kew Gardens](http://thestorybazaar.com/kew-gardens/) - Kew in Autumn. Glorious old favourites and a new, immersive sculpture called The Hive.
- [REFERENDUM II - the Hero Returns](http://thestorybazaar.com/referendum-ii-the-hero-returns/) - The latest epic blockbuster from Farage Productions.
- [Flamenco Reprise](http://thestorybazaar.com/flamenco-reprise/) - Venues and approximate prices for the flamenco performances at the Festival de Jerez. Photographs and descriptions of main venues.
- [Did the earth move for you?](http://thestorybazaar.com/did-the-earth-move-for-you/) - FREE in central London. Things to do and see.
- [Place & the Writer](http://thestorybazaar.com/place-the-writer/) - How does location impact upon the writer and his or her work? Discussion as part of 'Omnibus Edition' Clapham's Literary Festival.
- [Let me be clear...](http://thestorybazaar.com/let-me-be-clear/) - Who said what.... before and after the Referendum. An occasional series,
- [Poetry at Clapham Book Festival 2018](http://thestorybazaar.com/poetry-at-clapham-book-festival-2018/) - Poetry at this year's Fest. Plus some poems to celebrate Poetry a Work Day.
- [What lies ahead....?](http://thestorybazaar.com/what-lies-ahead/) - The big subjects of the New Year AND The Modern Stable Genius Song.
- [Let me be clear....about economic impact](http://thestorybazaar.com/let-me-be-clear-about-economic-impact/) - Who said what before,,,,, and after.... the Vote. Plus, some of what has happened since.
- [Post Holiday Blues](http://thestorybazaar.com/post-holiday-blues/) - Grey morning, housework and tax..... how do these feature in literature?
- [If Mrs Merton did tax and Brexit....](http://thestorybazaar.com/if-mrs-merton-did-tax-and-brexit/) - Questions of some of the leading Brexiteers, especially in relation to new EU rules on tax avoidance and transparency.
- [Rain](http://thestorybazaar.com/rain/) - Describing rain and storms.
- [2017 Reading Part II](http://thestorybazaar.com/2017-reading-part-ii/) - More books reviews for 2017.
- [As you were](http://thestorybazaar.com/as-you-were/) - ...stalemate after the Catalan elections of 21st December. What happens next?
- [Reading in 2017](http://thestorybazaar.com/reading-in-2017/) - Fiction I have enjoyed reading in 2017, from WWII Berlin to re-working of myth.
- [Season's Greetings](http://thestorybazaar.com/seasons-greetings/) - Books set in December or at Yule or Christmastide across the ages.
- [The Weekend Before Christmas](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-weekend-before-christmas/) - One week before Christmas and the towns of Andalucia celebrate in inimitable style.
- [South London Festivals 2018](http://thestorybazaar.com/south-london-festivals-2018/) - As Clapham WRiters gets charitable status planning begins for a number of festivals in 2018.
- [Burial Grounds of London](http://thestorybazaar.com/burial-grounds-of-london/) - Quiet, little known oases of calm amid the bustle of the city. St Pancras and St George's Gardens. Worth a visit.
- [Green Walk](http://thestorybazaar.com/green-walk/) - Worth a visit to Victoria Embankment Gardens
- [The Battle of the Crows...](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-battle-of-the-crows/) - How brightly plumaged parakeet newcomers met dark-hued south London crows.
- [Clapham Presses](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-presses/) - In 2016 the Clapham Book Festival explored the links between Place & the Writer, with the focus on Clapham and what seemed to be its longstanding connection with writing. To aid that discussion we identified fifty five Clapham writers of note and national reputation (including one who sailed on the Mayflower) and there are, no
- [Objective Correlative](http://thestorybazaar.com/objective-correlative/) - The Common as the spirit of Clapham.
- [Let me be clear...once more](http://thestorybazaar.com/let-me-be-clear-once-more/) - Who said what about establishing trading relations with the EU post Brexit, before and after the vote.
- [Let me be clear....again....](http://thestorybazaar.com/let-me-be-clear-again/) - Who said what about the Irish border question.
- [All the fun of the fair](http://thestorybazaar.com/all-the-fun-of-the-fair/) - Clapham Common's latest 'attraction' and the debate it is causing.
- [White](http://thestorybazaar.com/white/) - Can the situation in Spain be resolved peacefully? Yes. Will it be? Maybe.
- [Front Page](http://thestorybazaar.com/front-page-6/) - All the news abut the Clapham Book Festival, The Story Bazaar Compendia and other publications.
- [Old & Young](http://thestorybazaar.com/old-young/) - Flamenco singers Antonio Auejefas and Juan Lara at the Palacio Villavicencia in the 2017 Festival de Jerez
- [Smell...](http://thestorybazaar.com/smell/) - A quick trot through the western history of smell and its literature.
- [Dippy departed](http://thestorybazaar.com/dippy-departed/) - What's FREE to see in London. The newly installed blue whale in the Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum (and much more).
- [Walking the walls....](http://thestorybazaar.com/walking-the-walls/) - What to do in the ancient Analucian town of Jerez de la Frontera. A guide to walking the walls.
- [Arcos de la Frontera](http://thestorybazaar.com/arcos-de-la-frontera/) - What to see in the most famous of the pueblos blancos or white villages of Andalucia
- [Money changes hands....](http://thestorybazaar.com/money-changes-hands/) - Worth a visit. Central London pubs which were formerly banking houses.
- [Country food](http://thestorybazaar.com/country-food/) - Food and produce from the Sierra de Grazalema - little known but delicious.
- [Lincoln in the Bardo](http://thestorybazaar.com/lincoln-in-the-bardo/) - Review of the Man Booker Prize winner 2017
- [Homage to Catalonia](http://thestorybazaar.com/homage-to-catalonia/) - Separatists fight national riot police on the streets as an incendiary situation catches fire. Who is to blame?
- [Chirrup & tweet](http://thestorybazaar.com/chirrup-tweet/) - One person's recent experiences on twitter.
- [Metamorphosis](http://thestorybazaar.com/metamorphosis/) - A walk around Kings Cross redevelopment, via an old churchyard and a new nature reserve.
- [The View from Here](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-view-from-here/) - What Spanish people outside of Catalonia think about the crisis.
- [Mountain Winter](http://thestorybazaar.com/mountain-winter/) - Ice and snow comes to sunny Andalucia
- [Clapham Book Festival begins.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-book-festival-begins/) - 9.00 a.m. First is the physical preparation. Clapham Writers and volunteers, all sporting their Common Reading T-shirts, are at Omnibus at nine in the morning to organise the furniture in the Lounge/Bar area. We plan to have a very long table covered fully with the books of Festival authors, as well as a side table
- [Inundation](http://thestorybazaar.com/inundation/) - The great storm of 17th October in Jerez. On film and in writing.
- [The Fourth Estate](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-fourth-estate/) - Modern journalism, unpaid and unrestricted. How did we get here?
- [To Cut a Short Story Long](http://thestorybazaar.com/to-cut-a-short-story-long/) - What length of books do publisher's look for?
- [For Whom the Bell Tolls](http://thestorybazaar.com/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/) - The interconnectedness of things. From actual bells in Iberia to John Donne and the Bhagavad Gita.
- [Opera: Passion, Power & Politics](http://thestorybazaar.com/opera-passion-power-politics/) - What's on in London - the new exhibition at the V & A. Read a review here.
- [Who rules Spain? Erm.....?](http://thestorybazaar.com/who-rules-spain-erm/) - Progress since the General Election before Christmas has been closer to 'House of Cards' than one might think.
- [Our Lady of Mercy](http://thestorybazaar.com/our-lady-of-mercy/) - The annual festivities in one southern Spanish town to celebrate their city's patrona.
- [History by the River](http://thestorybazaar.com/history-by-the-river/) - Excellent monthly discussions about history writing, fiction and non-fiction in a wonderful setting.
- [Connecting](http://thestorybazaar.com/connecting/) - Six degrees of separation between a Clapham writer, a Palladian mansion and a Hollywood legend.
- [Chained](http://thestorybazaar.com/chained/) - Books are precious but in past times some libraries chained them to the shelves.
- [The Orange Walk](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-orange-walk/) - Barbara walks in the Pyrenees.
- [September](http://thestorybazaar.com/september/) - Lots of fruitfulness, not so many mists. Books for Autumn.
- [Sporting Weekend](http://thestorybazaar.com/sporting-weekend/) - The finale of a great Vuelta and a fine Test series, plus two notable retirements.
- [All in the Mind](http://thestorybazaar.com/all-in-the-mind/) - How the unconscious mind helps creativity.
- [Plots & Metaplots](http://thestorybazaar.com/plots-metaplots/) - The theory of plots, from Aristotle to Booker.
- [Beyond Everything](http://thestorybazaar.com/beyond-everything/) - Barbara muses on her recent nomadic existence on the way to her next walk - the Pyrenees.
- [He shouldn't have parked there.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/he-shouldnt-have-parked-there/) - ...he really shouldn't have. Clapham Old Town Fayre 2017 and a good time is had by all.
- [Turn again, Dick Whittington](http://thestorybazaar.com/turn-again-dick-whittington/) - The enduring allure of London and the writers who write about it.
- [Local & Exotic Magic](http://thestorybazaar.com/local-exotic-magic/) - Storytelling weaves a spell of local and exotic magic at Crystal Palace Overground Festival
- [The Spoken Word](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-spoken-word/) - Early preparations for the Crystal Palace Overground Festival 2017
- [Rainy Season](http://thestorybazaar.com/rainy-season/) - Is London having a mid-summer rainy season? Thoughts, stats and music.
- [The Seeing City](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-seeing-city/) - Cadiz, city of watch towers and balconies.
- [Another public vote.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/another-public-vote/) - Why the people of the UK should have another public vote and soon.
- [Common Summer](http://thestorybazaar.com/common-summer/) - Forthcoming events in Clapham, South London.
- [The wrong saint?](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-wrong-saint/) - How does the historical novellist cope when the past changes? Historical controversy in Jerez de la Frontera.
- [Warp and weft](http://thestorybazaar.com/warp-and-weft/) - 'To spin a yarn' we say, meaning to tell a story. Or 'to weave a tale'. The dictionary definition of 'to weave' includes 'to make by crossing threads, strands strips... to interlace...to work into a fabric, story etc.' 'To spin' is 'to draw out and twist into threads'. Or, to paraphrase, drawing out things or
- [Paco Pena](http://thestorybazaar.com/paco-pena/) - Glorious flamenco comes to north London at Sadlers Wells.
- [Mirador](http://thestorybazaar.com/mirador/) - The beautiful watchtowers of Cadiz.
- [When Greeks Flew Kites...](http://thestorybazaar.com/when-greeks-flew-kites/) - How the past can illuminate present dilemmas. History isn't bunk.
- [Rain Stopped Play](http://thestorybazaar.com/rain-stopped-play/) - One woman's memories of a cricketing childhood.
- [How NOT to write....again...](http://thestorybazaar.com/how-not-to-write-again/) - The other four and a half things NOT to do in the writing process.
- [Boozing Kens](http://thestorybazaar.com/boozing-kens/) - Etymology and a tap room in south London.
- [The Demagogue's Dictionary](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-demagogues-dictionary/) - Lexicon for aspiring demogues.
- [Amazing grace...](http://thestorybazaar.com/amazing-grace/) - The Clapham Sect, where they lived and worshipped and the remarkable reforms they introduced, for the whole world. Make a visit.
- [Two Novels Historical](http://thestorybazaar.com/two-novels-historical/) - Book reviews of plaudit laden novels 'The Essex Serpent' and 'Girl in the Glass Tower'.
- [The Museum of London Docklands](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-museum-of-london-docklands/) - What to do in London that's FREE. The history of docklands in the Port of London.
- [Descent into the Maelstrom](http://thestorybazaar.com/descent-into-the-maelstrom/) - A modern, less frightening, equivalent of the Edgar Allen Poe tale, to be experienced any weekday at one o'clock in Canary Wharf.
- [Ghost writing](http://thestorybazaar.com/ghost-writing/) - Practical advice from a master practitioner - Hilary Mantel on historical fiction writing.
- [Editing](http://thestorybazaar.com/editing/) - One writer's editing of the first her manuscript - what and how
- [Festival Land](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-land/) - How two south London festivals are growing and developing.
- [Parlez vous bike?](http://thestorybazaar.com/parlez-vous-bike/) - Sean Kelly and the patois of the peleton
- [Beyond Plastic](http://thestorybazaar.com/beyond-plastic/) - Barbara's thoughts on plastics and associated industries.
- [Step Right Up! Buy Your Democracy Here!](http://thestorybazaar.com/step-right-up-buy-your-democracy-here/) - The DUP buy-out is only the latest in a line of questionable funding irregularities in the UK,
- [A Stocktake](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-stocktake/) - Did the Clapham Book Festival 2017 deliver?
- [Fear no more the heat o' the sun](http://thestorybazaar.com/fear-no-more-the-heat-o-the-sun/) - Fires and fiery temperatures in southern Spain and a link to Guy Burgess.
- [Telling Tales](http://thestorybazaar.com/telling-tales/) - What one amateur storyteller learned in the Storytelling Tent.
- [The Coolest Place in the Park](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-coolest-place-in-the-park/) - Storytelling at Crystal Palace Overground
- [Storytelling at Crystal Palace Overground Festival](http://thestorybazaar.com/storytelling-at-crystal-palace-overground-festival/) - Come along to the Storytelling tent at Crystal Palace Overground Festival 17th June. It's FREE
- [Chatsworth Under Cover](http://thestorybazaar.com/chatsworth-under-cover/) - Conservatories and marquees at the inaugural RHS Chatsworth Flower Show
- [RHS Chatsworth](http://thestorybazaar.com/rhs-chatsworth/) - Going to the very first ever Chatsworth RHS Flower Show
- [It's not rocket science.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/its-not-rocket-science/) - It's not rocket science. An analysis of results shows how Labour could have won the election.
- [Storytelling - with a Tent and a Chair](http://thestorybazaar.com/storytelling-with-a-tent-and-a-chair/) - Storytelling. What's FREE and on in London June 2017. Crystal Palace Overground Festival.
- [Resurrection and how to do it](http://thestorybazaar.com/resurrection-and-how-to-do-it/) - The art of writing historical fiction, Hilary Mantel delivers the Reith lectures on the subject discussed at the Clapham Book Festival.
- [So what happened next...?](http://thestorybazaar.com/so-what-happened-next/) - In the battle for the soul of the Spanish Socialist Party who was victorious?
- [Common People 17](http://thestorybazaar.com/common-people-17/) - FREE Music, fun and the spoken word at the Bandstand on Clapham Common
- [I Don't Want to go to Chelsea....](http://thestorybazaar.com/i-dont-want-to-go-to-chelsea/) - ...but to the new 2017 RHS Flower Show at Chatsworth House in June.
- [Bring up the Bodies...](http://thestorybazaar.com/bring-up-the-bodies/) - Historical fiction is booming. Three top writers discuss the what, how and why of writing the past.
- [The Second Draft](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-second-draft/) - How one writer goes about revising the first draft of a novel.
- [London Books](http://thestorybazaar.com/london-books/) - The first chapter of Peter Ackroyd's London Under is entitled Darkness Visible and it begins 'Tread carefully over the pavements of London for you are treading on skin, a skein of stone that covers rivers and labyrinths, tunnels and chambers, streams and caverns, pipes and cables, springs and passages, crypts and sewers, creeping things that will
- [Brighton Marathon](http://thestorybazaar.com/brighton-marathon/) - Barbara runs the Brighton Marathon as prep for the Comrades.
- [South London Festivals Galore](http://thestorybazaar.com/south-london-festivals-galore/) - FREE Festival - Crystal Palace Overground Festival 2017 gears up and the Storytelling tent encourages local story writing.
- [Feria](http://thestorybazaar.com/feria/) - What's on at the 2017 Feria del Caballo, Jerez de la Frontera.
- [Relax](http://thestorybazaar.com/relax/) - Reflections on Clapham Book Festival 2017 and looking ahead to 2018.
- [Interesting Lives](http://thestorybazaar.com/interesting-lives/) - Kate Adie at the Clapham Book Festival 2017
- [Death and The Past](http://thestorybazaar.com/death-and-the-past/) - The Clapham Book Festival 2017 gets under way with murder and the past.
- [Tomorrow - Festival '17](http://thestorybazaar.com/tomorrow-festival-17/) - As Clapham Book Festival 2017 gears up to begin, some reflections on how it came about.
- [From Our Own Correspondent](http://thestorybazaar.com/from-our-own-correspondent/) - Come and hear Kate Adie at the Clapham Book Festival 6th May 2017
- [Pounding the Pavements](http://thestorybazaar.com/pounding-the-pavements/) - Clapham Writers promote the Clapham Book Festival.
- [Seduced by history......](http://thestorybazaar.com/seduced-by-history/) - Why do writers set their fiction in the past? Find out at Clapham Book Festival 6th May 2017.
- [International World Book Day](http://thestorybazaar.com/international-world-book-day/) - Celebrate reading! Celebrate the Book on 23rd April, World Book Day.
- [Espionage](http://thestorybazaar.com/espionage/) - Spying has always been a shadowy, dangerous game. Come along to Clapham Book Festival on 6th May to hear 3 distinguished writers in discussion about espionage.
- [Muscat, Scouts and Runners](http://thestorybazaar.com/muscat-scouts-and-runners/) - Barbara continues to train in Muscat and finds that she is not alone......
- ['Four legs good....](http://thestorybazaar.com/four-legs-good/) - How the pig's catchphrase from Animal Farm became a meme and the UK was sold off piece by piece.
- [Books & Snippets](http://thestorybazaar.com/books-snippets/) - Two Festival authors will be at Macfarlane's on Abbeville Road on 15th April 2017. Come along and meet them.
- [The Scottish Play](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-scottish-play/) - As Article 50 is triggered is all the bombast just a smokescreen to hide the facts about Brexit.
- [Snippets & Books](http://thestorybazaar.com/snippets-books/) - Two authors with new books out - published later this year.
- [Semana Santa in Jerez](http://thestorybazaar.com/semana-santa-in-jerez/) - Penitential Easter processions, sacred art and music in southern Spain.
- [Site specific](http://thestorybazaar.com/site-specific/) - Crystal Palace Park, site of the Crystal Palace Overground Festival 2017
- [Hello Prime Minister. We need to talk...](http://thestorybazaar.com/hello-prime-minister-we-need-to-talk/) - Hoaxer dupes former PM into agreeing to meet a potential coalition partner. But Spain is still without a government.
- [Clapham Book Festival - Media & Tickets](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-book-festival-media-tickets/) - The countdown begins to the second Clapham Book Festival.
- [Festival Goers 2017](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-goers-2017/) - Attending the international flamenco Festival de Jerez
- [Camerata Flamenco Project - Amazing](http://thestorybazaar.com/camerata-flamenco-project-amazing/) - Tremendous performance by cutting edge flamenco/jazz/classical musicians.
- [Flamenco jazz guitar](http://thestorybazaar.com/flamenco-jazz-guitar/) - For reasons of personal timetabling we didn't see any performances focusing on guitar this year until the end of our stay, though there had been several excellent guitarists in support of other artists. So I was particularly looking forward to seeing Jesus Guerrero at Sala Paul. I'm a fan of flamenco guitar, of Antonio Rey,
- [Jerez in the Rain](http://thestorybazaar.com/jerez-in-the-rain/) - What to do in Jerez when it's raining.
- [Lola](http://thestorybazaar.com/lola/) - Rafaele Carrasco in an homage to the life of the famous Jereziano singer, dancer and film star Lola Flores
- [Festival Vibes](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-vibes/) - Transito Marco Flores's show at Sala Paul, 2017 Festival de Jerez.
- [Carnaval Sunday](http://thestorybazaar.com/carnaval-sunday/) - A visit to the last Sunday of the Carnaval de Cadiz.
- [A Long and Winding Road](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-long-and-winding-road/) - Nomadic living in the 21st century; read about Barbara's first anniversary as a nomad.
- [History Writing](http://thestorybazaar.com/history-writing/) - Trends in writing non-fiction history, from academe to the TV blockbuster.
- [Hampton Court Half Marathon](http://thestorybazaar.com/hampton-court-half-marathon/) - Barbara prepares further for the Comrades in London and Sitges.
- [Flying Down to Jerez](http://thestorybazaar.com/flying-down-to-jerez/) - Returning to the lovely old two of Jerez de la Frontera for the Flamenco Festival
- [The First Draft](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-first-draft/) - Relief, astonishment then realisation that there such a lot to do - one writer finishes her first draft.
- [Historical Detectives](http://thestorybazaar.com/historical-detectives/) - The mean streets of downtown 1940s LA, fogbound Victorian London, the Acient Rome of Vepasian and Falco. Who are your favourite historical detectives?
- [Guitars](http://thestorybazaar.com/guitars/) - In just over a weeks time the twenty-first Festival de Jerez will begin. I have my flight tickets at the ready and our flat will be full of friends. There has already been much discussion about the Programme. Who is appearing? What shall we go to see? Last year there was a preponderance of guitarists, often fusing
- [The Demagogue's Handbook](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-demagogues-handbook/) - Having convinced an audience without believing anything, how do you retain your power over them?
- [Clapham Book Festival - The Programme](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-book-festival-the-programme/) - Find the 2017 Programme here. Novelists, historians, biographers all at Clapham Book Festival 2017.
- [Comrades - Week Seven](http://thestorybazaar.com/comrades-week-seven/) - Barbara continues her preparation for the Comrades super marathon.
- [You Read it Here First!](http://thestorybazaar.com/you-read-it-here-first/) - News and analysis The Story Bazaar covered first!
- [Locative Literature](http://thestorybazaar.com/locative-literature/) - Devising story from place.
- [Reconquista on the Tube](http://thestorybazaar.com/reconquista-on-the-tube/) - Follow the adventures of the 'Reconquista' books as Books on the Underground feature them across the London tube system.
- [#reconquistaonthetube tomorrow](http://thestorybazaar.com/reconquistaonthetube-tomorrow/) - Follow 'Reconquista' on the London Underground on 1st February 2017
- [Hills & Caves](http://thestorybazaar.com/hills-caves/) - The landscape of caves and childhood
- [Performance](http://thestorybazaar.com/performance/) - Preparing for Clapham Book Festival and Crystal Palace Overground Festivals
- [Week Five of Training](http://thestorybazaar.com/week-five-of-training/) - Follow Barbara's attempt on the Comrade Ultra Marathon
- [Bazaar Numbers](http://thestorybazaar.com/bazaar-numbers-2/) - Who comes to the Bazaar and how often? Website stats tell a story.
- [In the Now](http://thestorybazaar.com/in-the-now/) - Barbara travels to Muscat
- [Series & serials](http://thestorybazaar.com/series-serials/) - Short stories for charity via web-site Channillo
- [Indie Author Day 1st February](http://thestorybazaar.com/indie-author-day-1st-february/) - Indie Author Day is 1st Feb and 'Reconquista' is part of it. Find your copy!
- [Welcome 2017](http://thestorybazaar.com/welcome-2017/) - The Story Bazaar quick review of 2016 and plans for 2017.
- [What makes a book sell?](http://thestorybazaar.com/what-makes-a-book-sell/) - One writer's analysis of her sales profiles for two books and what work and what doesn't.
- [Incredible India](http://thestorybazaar.com/incredible-india/) - From Chennai to rural Jharkhand, Barbara experiences India once again.
- [Festive Front Page](http://thestorybazaar.com/festive-front-page/) - A miscellany of news for Christmas Eve... prizes, Books on the Underground, legislative changes and a new Compendium.
- [Festival de Jerez 2017 Preview](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-de-jerez-2017-preview/) - Next year's twenty-first international Festival of Flamenco in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain runs from 24th February to 11th March 2017 ( see Festival de Jerez 2017 Plus ). The Programme of events can now be found on the Ayuntamiento site at www.jerez.es - it was posted earlier today. There are thirty eight formal performances
- [Christmas Dancing in the Streets](http://thestorybazaar.com/christmas-dancing-in-the-streets/) - Zambomba singing and dancing in the beautiful old town of Jerez d la Frontera....
- [Weatherland](http://thestorybazaar.com/weatherland/) - Review of Alexandra Harris's study of how English weather influenced English letters, art and literature.
- [Grey Eminences](http://thestorybazaar.com/grey-eminences/) - The back-room, unpublicised 'councillors' who hold sway in literature and modern society.
- [Second Star to the Right.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/second-star-to-the-right/) - ...and straight on 'til morning. The National Theatre Christmas show this year is 'Peter Pan'. I went on Saturday to a completely full Olivier Theatre ( I sat separately from the rest of the party, so difficult was it to get tickets ). The production was originally presented at The Bristol Old Vic in 2012
- [December - Advent](http://thestorybazaar.com/december-advent/) - See what is happening in Jerez de la Frontera, an Andalucian town, during the run-up to Christmas and the Spanish General Election
- [Jerez in Autumn](http://thestorybazaar.com/jerez-in-autumn/) - Whats on in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain - zambombos and the Programme for the Festival de Jerez 2016
- [Rejection](http://thestorybazaar.com/rejection/) - Writers, how to cope with rejection.
- [Hawk II](http://thestorybazaar.com/hawk-ii/) - Where the wild things are.
- [Clapham Book Day](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-book-day/) - Clapham's Literary Festival 2017.
- [And what do you do?](http://thestorybazaar.com/and-what-do-you-do/) - Work and how it defines us.
- [Alt-Life](http://thestorybazaar.com/alt-life/) - Now that we live in a post-truth world and known things are re-named, so 'extreme right-wing' becomes 'Alt-Right' and 'inciting fear and hatred' becomes 'journalism' I've been wondering if it's possible, as an ordinary person, to live an 'alt-life'. Please don't misunderstand me. I don't mean drug or alcohol-induced happiness (though our Christmas wine will
- [Hawk](http://thestorybazaar.com/hawk/) - How I acquired an unlooked-for feathered house-guest.
- [Compendium 2016 & other books](http://thestorybazaar.com/compendium-2016-other-books/) - The annual year-book of The Story Bazaar and other books.
- [Landscape](http://thestorybazaar.com/landscape/) - The art of writing about nature. Review of Robert Macfarlane's books, 'Landmarks', 'The Wild Places' and 'The Old Ways'.
- [Trade](http://thestorybazaar.com/trade/) - How a protectionist President might damage a post Brexit UK
- [November Writing](http://thestorybazaar.com/november-writing/) - NaNoWriMo begins as one writer struggles with a particularly complex scene.
- [Another Child's Eye](http://thestorybazaar.com/another-childs-eye/) - Book review of 'The God of Small Things' by Arundati Roy and 'The Cat's Table' by Michael Ondaatje.
- [Wanted; book researcher.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/wanted-researcher-to-visit-romantic-old-town-in-spain/) - How one writer researches her historical novels
- [Against the odds....](http://thestorybazaar.com/against-the-odds/) - The triumph of the 'outsider' in politics.
- [Beautiful Borough & Gorgeous George](http://thestorybazaar.com/beautiful-borough-gorgeous-george/) - What's on in London. Walking, eating and drinking in historic Borough.
- [Maximise your book sales](http://thestorybazaar.com/maximise-your-book-sales/) - One writer's experience of making the most of a published book.
- [Stop Press  Stop Press   News Up-date](http://thestorybazaar.com/stop-press-stop-press-news-up-date/) - Books, Spain gets a government after 316 days and Brexit, the High Court challenge. Follow-up on The Story Bazaar reports.
- [Not Quite a Green London for 2025](http://thestorybazaar.com/not-quite-a-green-london-for-2025/) - London's battle with air pollution targets by 2025.
- [Five days and counting......](http://thestorybazaar.com/five-days-and-counting/) - Only five days left to form a government before Spain has to undergo another general election! The third in twelve months.
- [2017 Festival de Jerez Plus](http://thestorybazaar.com/2017-festival-de-jerez-plus/) - Dates for next years flamenco Festival de Jerez and for Cadiz Carnaval
- [A Child's Eye](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-childs-eye/) - Novels with child protagonists and a child's eye view.
- [Picking over the Brexit bones](http://thestorybazaar.com/picking-over-the-brexit-bones/) - Why did the 'Remain' camp lose the vote? And what the 'Leave' vote doesn't necessarily mean.
- [Good News Matters](http://thestorybazaar.com/good-news-matters/) - How news, good or bad, influences your well being
- [Visit to El Palacio del Virrey Laserna](http://thestorybazaar.com/visit-to-el-palacio-del-virrey-laserna/) - What to see in Jerez de la Frontera. Fine palace with a long and interesting history, belonging to an old aristocratic Spanish family. Worth a visit.
- [Breathing ( really does ) Matter](http://thestorybazaar.com/breathing-really-does-matter/) - Why we should think about and improve how we breathe.
- [Stalemate](http://thestorybazaar.com/stalemate/) - The 2016 Spanish General Election produces another hung Parliament.
- [The weekend after](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-weekend-after/) - Cassandra prophesies as folk assess the post-Vote reality.
- [Festival de Jerez 2016](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-de-jerez-2016/) - The twentieth Festival of Flamenco is underway in the southern Spanish city of Jerez, heartland of flamenco. Find commentary and reviews here.
- [Democracy III](http://thestorybazaar.com/democracy-iii/) - More dramatic in-fighting on the left, this time in Spain.
- [Still Summer in September](http://thestorybazaar.com/still-summer-in-september/) - Writing the sequel to 'Reconquista' in Jerez in September.
- [Where to be?](http://thestorybazaar.com/where-to-be/) - Barbara begins to narrow down the search for a home.
- [Salt](http://thestorybazaar.com/salt/) - The history of salt and salt pans.
- [Baring All](http://thestorybazaar.com/baring-all/) - Barbara's latest nomadic adventures in Corsica.
- [In the beginning.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/in-the-beginning/) - How our systems of writing developed, from cave paintings to the internet.
- [Viniculture](http://thestorybazaar.com/viniculture/) - What to see in Narbonne and the history of wine.
- [Summer Reading in Autumn](http://thestorybazaar.com/summer-reading-in-autumn/) - Three light, but immersive novels for the late Summer/early Autumn holiday.
- [Nothing to fear, but fear itself....](http://thestorybazaar.com/nothing-to-fear-but-fear-itself/) - More advice for aspiring demagogues in The Demagogue's Handbook.
- [Reflections on the Camino](http://thestorybazaar.com/reflections-on-the-camino/) - Barbara comes to the end of her latest adventure on the Camino del Norte
- [At the Polygon](http://thestorybazaar.com/at-the-polygon/) - What's on in London - a day out at Clapham Village Fete 3rd September 2016
- [To the End of the World](http://thestorybazaar.com/to-the-end-of-the-world/) - Barbara continues her walk on the Camino, to Finisterre, the End of the World
- [Clapham Village Fete](http://thestorybazaar.com/clapham-village-fete/) - Clapham Writers attend an old fashioned village fete in celebration of 150 years of the London Fire Brigade
- [Clues...](http://thestorybazaar.com/clues/) - Seeing the 'bones' of a story is sometimes unhelpful in everyday life.
- [Britain is Free!](http://thestorybazaar.com/britain-is-free/) - The language of post-truth politics, in the UK and the US
- [Santiago de Compostela](http://thestorybazaar.com/santiago-de-compostela/) - Along the Camino Portugues with Barbara. Food, wine, monasteries and reflection.
- [The Plough & The Stars](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-plough-the-stars/) - What's on in London. Review of Sean O'Casey's Easter 1916 Irish Rising play, currently at the National Theatre.
- [But it's bigger on the inside!](http://thestorybazaar.com/but-its-bigger-on-the-inside/) - Dr Who's TARDIS and other perspective boxes in London, Summer 2016
- [Borders](http://thestorybazaar.com/borders/) - Barbara's further adventures on the Camino Portugeues
- [I'm back!](http://thestorybazaar.com/im-back/) - The further adventures of Sue on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
- [Camaraderie on the Camino](http://thestorybazaar.com/camaraderie/) - The next leg of Barbara's journey along the Camino Portugues
- [Characters](http://thestorybazaar.com/characters/) - How characters develop when writing a novel ( especially when writing a sequel ).
- [Plotting](http://thestorybazaar.com/plotting/) - One writer's experience of writing the plot of a sequel.
- [Camino Portugues - Vilarinho to Barcelos](http://thestorybazaar.com/camino-portugues-vilarinho-to-barcelos/) - Barbara's second day on the camino, complete with key-rings and roosters.
- [Once more with feeling...](http://thestorybazaar.com/once-more-with-feeling/) - Sequels and what to consider when writing one.
- [Inside Out - on the camino](http://thestorybazaar.com/inside-out-on-the-camino/) - Barbara begins her walk along the Camino Portugues.
- [Literary birds...](http://thestorybazaar.com/literary-birds/) - ... fiction and non-fiction about hawks and falcons
- [The Pursuit](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-pursuit/) - Some interesting facts about medieval falconry.
- [Tormentas](http://thestorybazaar.com/tormentas/) - Storms in the high sierras, the setting for the next book in the Al Andalus series
- [Democracy II](http://thestorybazaar.com/democracy-ii/) - Does it get even more peculiar? Recent developments in politics.
- [Summer Nights 2016](http://thestorybazaar.com/summer-nights-2016/) - High summer in Jerez de la Frontera 2016. What's On.
- [Festival Prizes](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-prizes/) - Books at the Clapham Literary Festival win awards.
- [The High Sierras](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-high-sierras/) - Leaving grim London for the sun in Jerez and the Sierras.
- [Verano en Jerez.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/verano-en-jerez/) - Some of what's on this summer in the wonderful old Andalucian town of Jerez de la Frontera, where one writer goes to write.
- [The journey continues.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-journey-continues/) - Researching the sequel to 'Reconquista' in the mountains east of Jerez.
- [Royal siblings](http://thestorybazaar.com/royal-siblings/) - King Alfonso X of Castile y Leon and Queen Eleanor of England, wife to Edward I. The 'Royal Blood' series of lectures.
- [Local Music](http://thestorybazaar.com/local-music/) - Live music at the local south London fete. Who needs Glastonbury?
- [Heavenly motions - the music of the spheres](http://thestorybazaar.com/heavenly-motions-the-music-of-the-spheres/) - Astronomer King Alfonso in the June night sky.
- [Heavenly music](http://thestorybazaar.com/heavenly-music/) - Heavenly music. How thirteenth century medieval lyrics have come back to life.
- [Sunrise and the roundabout?](http://thestorybazaar.com/sunrise-and-the-roundabout/) - Britain and Spain go to the polls within three days of each other.
- [Promoting a book...](http://thestorybazaar.com/promoting-a-book/) - How to promote a full-price book, for free.
- [Stories of Democracy](http://thestorybazaar.com/stories-of-democracy/) - Where are the great 'election' novels? Writer J.J.Anderson considers fiction about democracy.
- [Democracy](http://thestorybazaar.com/democracy/) - A momentous month for democracy. Another Spanish General Election and the EU Referendum in Britain
- [Where Next?](http://thestorybazaar.com/where-next/) - Barbara volunteers in Herefordshire and then sets out along the Pilgrim's Way.
- [If.... coming to a place near you?](http://thestorybazaar.com/if-coming-to-a-place-near-you/) - Forthcoming events linked to or reviewed on The Story Bazaar.
- [Under Canvas?](http://thestorybazaar.com/under-canvas/) - What's On in London. Flower mohicans, cross-dressing and tulip suits - a report from the 2016 RHS Chelsea Show.
- [London Summer Starts Here](http://thestorybazaar.com/london-summer-starts-here/) - What's on in London. The 2016 Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Read reviews here.
- [Farce at the Criterion](http://thestorybazaar.com/farce-at-the-criterion/) - What's on in London. A very funny, farcical take on a heist at the Criterion Theatre. Review.
- [Empty Nesters](http://thestorybazaar.com/empty-nesters/) - Barbara reflects on being a nomad.
- [Another Library](http://thestorybazaar.com/another-library/) - What's on in London. Writers gather in Mary Seacole House, Clapham's Library, as part of Clapham's Literary Festival 2016.
- [Sunshine and flamenco guitar](http://thestorybazaar.com/sunshine-and-flamenco-guitar/) - The formal launch party of 'Reconquista' took place on the hottest weekend of the year so far.
- [Readers Afternoon](http://thestorybazaar.com/readers-afternoon/) - A chance for the people of Clapham to meet and talk with our writers ho live in their community.
- [In the Garden....](http://thestorybazaar.com/in-the-garden/) - ...could be a serpent and an apple tree, earthly delights or a nightingale, or a collective noun of writers.
- [The End of the Way](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-end-of-the-way/) - Barbara reaches Fort William and the end of the West Highland Way.
- [Promotion and self-promotion](http://thestorybazaar.com/promotion-and-self-promotion/) - How one author is going about promoting her new novel.
- [Around and around....](http://thestorybazaar.com/around-and-around/) - ...there is to be a re-run of last December's Spanish General Election in June of this year.
- [The Last Lap](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-last-lap/) - Only 72 hours to go before the Festival begins. Last minute anxieties and fixes in SW4.
- [Storm Warning](http://thestorybazaar.com/storm-warning/) - If weather is prophetic, what does our current London weather signify?
- [Patios de los Naranjos](http://thestorybazaar.com/patios-de-los-naranjos/) - What to see in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia, Spain. Moorish and Christian orange tree patios.
- ['Omnibus Edition' an up-date](http://thestorybazaar.com/omnibus-edition-an-up-date/) - How things are going with preparations for Clapham's first Literary Festival.
- [April First, West Highland Way](http://thestorybazaar.com/april-first-west-highland-way/) - So foul and fair a day - Barbara walks over Rannoch Moor
- [A Fighter's Arms](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-fighters-arms/) - Where to go in London.
- [Country living is good for the soul](http://thestorybazaar.com/country-living-is-good-for-the-soul/) - One woman's discovery of a Spanish rural idyll.
- [The making of an audiobook](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-making-of-an-audiobook/) - One writer's experience of making an audio book using Audiobook Creation Exchange.
- [From North India to Neasden](http://thestorybazaar.com/from-north-india-to-neasden/) - What to see in London - Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden
- [Jerez Archeology](http://thestorybazaar.com/jerez-archeology/) - What to see in Jerez. Fine archeological museum.
- ['Omnibus Edition' the Clapham Literary Festival](http://thestorybazaar.com/omnibus-edition-the-clapham-literary-festival/) - Whats on in London. From 3rd - 8th May 2016 is Clapham Literary Festival, taking place across three venues in South London.
- [A Lone Sheep](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-lone-sheep/) - Barbara encounters wild life as she starts her walk along the West Highland Way.
- [Reconquista.online](http://thestorybazaar.com/reconquista-online/) - Launch of new web-site for Reconquista, book 1 in the Al Andalus series.
- [Contrasts](http://thestorybazaar.com/contrasts/) - Two interesting old buildings housing places to eat and drink in Sanlucar de Barrameda
- [The Nomad](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-nomad/) - Becoming a nomad for the first time in the twenty first century.
- [Trousers....](http://thestorybazaar.com/trousers/) - ...definitely not 'pants'. The Twentieth Festival de Jerez is the best yet.
- [Reversible](http://thestorybazaar.com/reversible/) - Finely performed flamenco set which challenges pre-conceived ideas about gender.
- [Sherry wine, dancing and song](http://thestorybazaar.com/sherry-wine-dancing-and-song/) - Bodega Gonzales Byass opens its doors for two flamenco performances on the same day at the twentieth Festival de Jerez
- [Street Art](http://thestorybazaar.com/street-art/) - Surprising street art for the Festival of flamenco in Jerez de la Frontera.
- [Jazz guitar](http://thestorybazaar.com/jazz-guitar/) - Two tremendous flamenco-jazz guitarists in one week. Javier Patino and Santiago Lara play Jerez Festival.
- [Indomitable women](http://thestorybazaar.com/indomitable-women/) - Two twentieth century sisters, Encarnacion and Pilar Lopez, who made their own way against great odds.
- [Festival de Jerez](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-de-jerez/) - Flamenco in its Andalucian home. Reviews of performances, venues and other experiences
- [Lamento](http://thestorybazaar.com/lamento/) - Fabulous flamenco perfromance at the Festival de Jerez in the Convento de San Augustin by Merecedes Ruiz, David Lago, Santiago Lara and Debora de la Fuentes
- [Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution](http://thestorybazaar.com/samuel-pepys-plague-fire-revolution/) - What's on in London. New exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
- [Naval Novels](http://thestorybazaar.com/naval-novels/) - Book review - the Aubrey/Maturin novels of Patrick OBrien.
- [The Art of Walking and Dying](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-art-of-walking-and-dying/) - Exploring the cycle of life and death through meditation.
- [Walking & breathing](http://thestorybazaar.com/walking-breathing/) - Barbara Pidgeon, author and psychologist, yoga teacher, breath specialist, nutritionist and avid researcher, starts blogging on The Story Bazaar this weekend.
- [How NOT to publish a non-fiction book...](http://thestorybazaar.com/how-not-to-publish-a-non-fiction-book/) - The trials and tribulations of 'e' publishing a non-fiction book.
- [Provender](http://thestorybazaar.com/provender/) - Celebratory food of long ago. Christmas and Hannukah feasts in 1264.
- [By me, William Shakespeare](http://thestorybazaar.com/by-me-william-shakespeare/) - What's on in London. New exhibition about Shakespeare's life at Somerset House.
- [The Land of the Two Rivers](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-land-of-the-two-rivers/) - What's on in London, British Museum, FREE tours and talks, magical history tours
- ['Three Days in the Country'](http://thestorybazaar.com/three-days-in-the-country/) - Review of Patrick Marber's version of Turgenev at the National Theatre, starring John Simm, Mark Gatiss and Amanda Drew.
- [Kite](http://thestorybazaar.com/kite/) - What's on in London and around the UK. New, enthralling production by 'The Wrong Crowd'.
- ['X' marks the spot](http://thestorybazaar.com/x-marks-the-spot/) - Buried treasure. What to do with it and where to find it.
- [Vive la Revolution!](http://thestorybazaar.com/vive-la-revolution/) - Why you should read A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel and Citizens by Simon Schama.
- [Happy Birthday Story Bazaar!](http://thestorybazaar.com/happy-birthday-story-bazaar/) - One year of The Story Bazaar, on-line publishing imprint and web-site.
- [Reading a book by its cover....](http://thestorybazaar.com/reading-a-book-by-its-cover/) - The process of book cover design. One author's recent experience.
- [Festival de Jerez II](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-de-jerez-ii/) - Flamenco in its Andalucian home. Reviews of performances, venues and other experiences
- [Festival de Jerez Preview](http://thestorybazaar.com/festival-de-jerez-preview/) - The Programme, the artists and what is different about the Festival in 2016.
- [The First Library](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-first-library/) - What to see in London. The Library of Ashpurbanipal, King of Assyria c. 630 BCE, its remarkable contents and how it survived.
- [From Gutenberg to Google](http://thestorybazaar.com/from-gutenberg-to-google/) - Hints and tips about preparing a book for publication ( and the history of printing ).
- [Scenes at the Museum](http://thestorybazaar.com/scenes-at-the-museum/) - What's on in London. A return to the British Museum.
- [Visualising 'Reconquista'](http://thestorybazaar.com/visualising-reconquista/) - What makes a good book blurb and cover? Visualising the cover and other imagery for 'Reconquista', the new novel from J.J.Anderson.
- [The Twelfth](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-twelfth/) - The traditions and history of Twelfth Night, traditionally the last chance for merry-making before the end of the holiday.
- [Out with the old.....](http://thestorybazaar.com/out-with-the-old/) - The evolution of the book-specific web-site. As one book site closes another will open.
- [Ring in the New](http://thestorybazaar.com/ring-in-the-new/) - What will happen in 2016? At The Story Bazaar? In the London Mayoral elections? In Spain?
- [Bazaar Numbers](http://thestorybazaar.com/bazaar-numbers/) - What's the most popular blog piece? Where do Story Bazaar readers come from? All the stats here.
- [A new sort of politics?](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-new-sort-of-politics/) - How ordinary people are changing politics. Ahora en Comun, a new Spanish political movement which seeks to build on the energy of the indignados.
- [Interesting climes...](http://thestorybazaar.com/interesting-climes/) - The impact of climate change in a south London garden? Or on a wider canvas.
- [Zambomba!](http://thestorybazaar.com/zambomba/) - One Andalucian town's unique pre-Christmas celebration - with fire, drums and songs.
- [The Story Bazaar Compendium 2015](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-story-bazaar-compendium-2015/) - NEW from The Story Bazaar. A collection of readers' favourite articles, essays and blog-pieces by all of its writers. PLUS new fiction from J.J.Anderson.
- [Short Stories](http://thestorybazaar.com/short-stories/) - Review of two contemporary short story collections by well-known English writers, Graham Swift and Julian Barnes.
- [Galleys and Ornaments](http://thestorybazaar.com/galleys-and-ornaments/) - How printers have organised and embellished text, for thousands of years.
- [Clipper News](http://thestorybazaar.com/clipper-news-2/) - Up-date on the Clipper Round the World Yacht race as at X December 2015.
- [Novels Historical](http://thestorybazaar.com/novels-historical/) - Book reviews of three historical novels.
- [When is a font not a font?](http://thestorybazaar.com/when-is-a-font-not-a-font/) - When it's a typeface. How the typeface and font we use impacts upon our ability to read.
- [Comments gratefully received](http://thestorybazaar.com/comments-gratefully-received/) - Readers respond to the call for comments. Thanks to everyone who replied. What happens next.
- [Writers Upstairs](http://thestorybazaar.com/writers-upstairs/) - Writers gather to discuss writing and listen to new work in central London.
- [Wanted; book blurb](http://thestorybazaar.com/wanted-book-blurb/) - Your opportunity to provide some 'blurb'. The history of book blurb and why it is so widely used. The Story Bazaar Compendium 2015.
- [Help & self-help](http://thestorybazaar.com/help-self-help/) - The course and tools out there to help you learn how to write and market a book
- [Interviews](http://thestorybazaar.com/interviews/) - A fledgling author's experiences with interviews
- [FREE E-Book promotion](http://thestorybazaar.com/free-e-book-promotion/) - Five star rated 'the Village' collection - download the first four tales AT NO COST today and for five days only.
- [An audio-book for Christmas](http://thestorybazaar.com/an-audio-book-for-christmas/) - An audio-book in time for Christmas. Eight hours and twenty two minutes of The Village for £13.55 on Amazon
- [Front Page](http://thestorybazaar.com/front-page-2/) - Changes to The Story Bazaar web-site
- [READY!?](http://thestorybazaar.com/ready/) - The last training session before setting off for the Southern Ocean on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
- [A perfectly preserved Princess....](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-perfectly-preserved-princess/) - ...the Princess Louise public house on High Holborn is worth a visit to see its remarkable Victorian interior.
- [Reconquista](http://thestorybazaar.com/reconquista/) - The new novel from J.J.Anderson is set during the period when the Christian north fought to regain Al Andalus from its Moorish overlords.
- [Shoes and hair](http://thestorybazaar.com/shoes-and-hair/) - Writers' 'tics'. Mine are disappointing. Where's the profundity in kitten heels? What depth is there in a chignon?
- [How NOT to write.......](http://thestorybazaar.com/how-not-to-write/) - Or...nine and a half things NOT to do as part of the writing process. One writer's experience.
- [The Sources of 'The Village'](http://thestorybazaar.com/sources-of-the-village/) - Where do stories come from? Literary influences on 'The Village'.
- [Sadness & Determination](http://thestorybazaar.com/sadness-determination/) - Carrying on with the Clipper Round the World Yacht race after a fatal accident.
- [Vendimia II](http://thestorybazaar.com/vendimia-ii/) - What's on at the Grape Harvest in Jerez de la Frontera, home of sherry
- [Vendimia](http://thestorybazaar.com/vendimia/) - The Fiestas de la Vendimia, the grape harvest and festivities in Jerez de la Frontera 2015
- [Clipper News](http://thestorybazaar.com/clipper-news/) - Up-date on the Race after the fatal injury of a crewman.
- [Vote for your favourite title](http://thestorybazaar.com/vote-for-your-favourite-title/) - Author seeks help from readers in finding book title. Help!
- [Entitlement - the search for a title](http://thestorybazaar.com/entitlement-the-search-for-a-title/) - Analysis of popular titles for 'young adult' fiction.
- [Sometimes voices - where does your accent come from?](http://thestorybazaar.com/sometimes-voices-where-does-your-accent-come-from/) - The problems, and solutions, in using accents when narrating and recording an audio-book.
- [The Museum at Lord's](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-museum-at-lords/) - Worth a visit in London - the museum at the 'headquarters of cricket' Lord's cricket ground in St John's Wood
- [Naming Day](http://thestorybazaar.com/naming-day/) - Twelve boats are formally named at St Katherine's Dock before setting out on their global circumnavigation.
- [Book People II](http://thestorybazaar.com/book-people-ii/) - Reading and writing stories and the people who do it.
- [How NOT to promote a book](http://thestorybazaar.com/how-not-to-promote-a-book/) - Five major mistakes and lessons to learn when promoting a book.
- [What's in a name?](http://thestorybazaar.com/whats-in-a-name/) - Where did the name 'The Story Bazaar' come from?
- [Story of a Journey](http://thestorybazaar.com/story-of-a-journey/) - Writing an adventure story - structure, character and plot of the journey.
- [The Basics of Adventure](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-basics-of-adventure/) - Sneak preview of J.J.Anderson's new adventure story, to be published in September
- [How does a book sound?](http://thestorybazaar.com/how-does-a-book-sound/) - One writer's experiences of advising on her characters' voices.
- [Oh, to be in England...](http://thestorybazaar.com/oh-to-be-in-england/) - Literary references & quotes, hidden in plain sight, in 'The Village; A Year in Twelve Tales'.
- ["When I was a child...."](http://thestorybazaar.com/when-i-was-a-child/) - How the meaning of words is inverted.
- [A Day at the Races](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-day-at-the-races/) - Ladies Day at Sandown Park.
- [Spain sizzles...](http://thestorybazaar.com/spain-sizzles/) - Life when the weather sizzles in a southern Spanish town. One writer takes inspiration from the ancient places and architecture.
- [Violet snow](http://thestorybazaar.com/violet-snow/) - Spring in the Andalucian town of Jerez de la Frontera. Local elections, religious processions, football and austerity.
- [Andalucian Spring](http://thestorybazaar.com/andalucian-spring/) - Good things are happening in Jerez in April & May. There is orange blossom, jacarandas, horses, gardens and antique motorbikes.
- [Andalucian Spring  II - the Feria](http://thestorybazaar.com/andalucian-spring-ii-the-feria/) - The annual Feria del Caballo in Jerez de la Frontera takes place in May, a riot of colour, spectacle, skill & tradition, with flamenco providing the bass notes.
- ['Small Stories'](http://thestorybazaar.com/small-stories/) - Amazing, free Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, with wonderful doll's house exhibition right now.
- [An old Prospect...](http://thestorybazaar.com/an-old-prospect/) - Historic public house on Wapping Wall, with an interesting, and ghoulish, past.
- [Playing air guitar...](http://thestorybazaar.com/playing-air-guitar/) - What every flamenco air guitarist needs to know
- [Viva flamenco!](http://thestorybazaar.com/viva-flamenco/) - This week and next is the Festival de Jerez, in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, the home of Flamenco ( despite what some Sevillanos say ). It is two weeks of classes, symposia and, above all, performance, when the whole town resounds to gypsy rhythms. Walking about the lovely old centre one is never far
- [Easter doings](http://thestorybazaar.com/easter-doings/) - Christchurch Spitalfields (entrance free) St Paul's Cathedral (£17.50) and the chapel Spital Square (now a bar/restaurant). Easter processions in London & Andalucia
- [Garden in the Sky](http://thestorybazaar.com/garden-in-the-sky/) - A garden in the sky at Kensington Roof Gardens; how to get there; what's to see.
- [Lines from Lesvos II](http://thestorybazaar.com/lines-from-lesvos-ii/) - Misadventures of a bird watcher's partner on the Greek island of Lesvos, usually in the rain.
- [Lines from Lesvos](http://thestorybazaar.com/lines-from-lesvos/) - The adventures of a neglected partner on the Greek island of Lesvos, in April, in the rain, with bees and bird watchers.
- [A Nautical Adventure](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-nautical-adventure/) - One yachtswoman's experience, preparing for and sailing the Southern Ocean in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2015.
- [Trust](http://thestorybazaar.com/trust/) - How one Clipper crew prepares for their big test against the elements.
- [When is a blog not a blog?](http://thestorybazaar.com/when-is-a-blog-not-a-blog/) - When it's an essay. Essayists, novelists and playwrights in South London bookshop shock horror.
- [An Evening at Clapham Books](http://thestorybazaar.com/an-evening-at-clapham-books/) - Fun evening in the garden of Clapham Books brought writers out to support J.J.Anderson's 'The Village; A Year in Twelve Tales'.
- [Book people....](http://thestorybazaar.com/book-people/) - All about writing professionals, writers, bloggers, journalists, booksellers, editors, etc.
- [A Village Fete](http://thestorybazaar.com/a-village-fete/) - The Summer fetes and festivals of London. Where is yours?
- [Greetings readers, where ever you are!](http://thestorybazaar.com/greetings-readers-where-ever-you-are/) - The global reach of one small web-site. Surprising and amazing!
- [Summer is a-coming in](http://thestorybazaar.com/summer-is-a-coming-in/) - All that's happening at the Chelsea Flower show. Garden design, plants, gardening accessories, seafood, champagne and socialising. 18th - 24th May 2015.
- [Breaking News; Triffid seen on Circle Line](http://thestorybazaar.com/breaking-news-triffid-seen-on-circle-line/) - Underground passengers report sightings of rare and deadly plant-life Triffidus Wyndamii between Sloane Square and Central London.
- [Fashion on the ration...](http://thestorybazaar.com/fashion-on-the-ration/) - Fashion on the ration, an exhibition of 1940s war-time fashion and style at the Imperial War Museum, South London. Entrance £10.
- [Out & About with 'The Village'](http://thestorybazaar.com/out-about-with-the-village/) - J.J.Anderson, author of 'The Village; A Year in Twelve Tales' was at MacFarlae's Fine Foods on Saturday, talking with readers and shoppers about her book.
- [PR, hype and profile](http://thestorybazaar.com/pr-hype-and-profile/) - How one author in south London organises publicity for her short story collection, in order to maximise on-line sales

## Pages

- [The Story Bazaar...](http://thestorybazaar.com/) - is no longer publishing 'e', printed or audio books. The Story Bazaar web-site is no longer active, but you can still find your favourite posts and bloggers. If you're looking for Julie Anderson go to her new web-site www.julieandersonwriter.com. Here you can... learn about Story Bazaar books and other publications still available. Read Story Bazaar
- [Books](http://thestorybazaar.com/books/) - The Story Bazaar list of books, short stories, novels, memoir and other forms.
- [Reconquista & The Silver Rings](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-al-andalus-series/) - Adventure & family saga set in Cadiz and Jerez during the Age of Discovery in newly united Spain, featuring the Delgado clan, Cristobal Colon, Pizarro & Cortez.
- [Writers & bloggers](http://thestorybazaar.com/writers-bloggers/) - Story Bazaar writers and bloggers as of August 2016
- ['A Changing Sky', a new short story by J.J.Anderson](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/a-changing-sky-a-new-short-story-by-j-j-anderson/) - 'A Changing Sky' a new short story by J.J.Anderson
- [In Calley Wood](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-village/in-calley-wood/) - It is Spring and a young boy chases a hare, deep into Calley Wood.....
- [The Village](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-village/) - Great reader reviews of The Village short story collection about the life, loves, feuds and friendships in a modern English village
- [Chapter 11  Runaway](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-al-andalus-series/chapter-11-runaway/) - FREE, Read Reconquista, Chapter 11, Runaway FREE
- [Chapter 7  Left Behind](http://thestorybazaar.com/the-al-andalus-series/chapter-7-left-behind/) - Read Chapter 7 of Reconquista FREE
- [Compendium 2016](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/compendium-2016/) - The Story Bazaar Compendium 2016 can be found in PDF below. Compendium2016inAchieveV3
- [Treasure - a new short story by J.J.Anderson](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/treasure-a-new-short-story-by-j-j-anderson/) - Caroline returns home after her mother's death, to find that she is not the only returnee.....
- [A Successful Man](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/a-successful-man/) - New short fiction by J.J.Anderson. A successful man remembers an incident from his past on the day of his triumph.
- [Mausoleum, a short story by J.J.Anderson](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/mausoleum-a-short-story-by-j-j-anderson/) - Sign-up for The Story Bazaar Newsletter and get new short stories, free.
- [The Story Bazaar Compendia](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/the-story-bazaar-compendia/) - Below find PDFs of the 'e' versions of The Story Bazaar Compendia. 2015 The_Story_Bazaar_2015_Interior_for_KindleV7
- [Home - a new short story by J.J.Anderson](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/home-a-new-short-story-by-j-j-anderson/) - Sign up for The Story Bazaar Readers Club and get new short fiction FREE
- [The Village Landscape](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/the-village-landscape/) - Where, in the landscape of English literature, does The Village sit? What are its literary antecedents?
- [Padua Road, a new short story by J.J.Anderson](http://thestorybazaar.com/bnq__trashed/padua-road-a-new-short-story-by-j-j-anderson/) - Sign up for The Story Bazaar newsletter and get the latest short story from J.J.Anderson, free

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