Henry Gee
is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets. His next book, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, will be published by Picador and St Martins Press: Pre-Order it here. His recreations include writing, making music, beachcombing, supporting Norwich City FC, and falling asleep. For all bookish inquiries please contact Jill Grinberg Literary Management.
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Category Archives: Writing & Reading
Pliny
Pliny the Elder, yes, that’s the one, the author of Natural History, which got a very poor review on Goodreads at the time, one reader castigating the author as ‘that voluminous, industrious, unphilosophical, gullible, unsystematic old gossip’, who nevertheless died … Continue reading
Scrabbungulate
I’m not sure whether either of you know that I am rather fond of Scrabble. I can be found haunting the Internet Scrabble Club under the name of zedwave, (playing Scrabble online with people you know only as nicknames is, … Continue reading
Clichécollisional
Headline for this story, from the Daily Telegraph‘s landing page: BORIS JOHNSON PLEDGES TO RAMP UP VACCINATION ROLL OUT The italics are mine. Perhaps I am just unusually literal-minded, or oversensitive to cliché but this seems to mix metaphors such … Continue reading
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Tagged cliche, duckspeak, ramp up, roll out, semantic bleaching, vaccination
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AdHederance
Over the festive period I’ve been ploughing through a volume of some vastness entitled 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (ed. Mary Danby). I bought this grimoire secondhand a long time ago. It contains many well-anthologised old chestnuts such as … Continue reading
Posted in Domesticrox, Writing & Reading
Tagged building, elizabeth walter, gardeners question time, gardening, holly, horror, ivy
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Litreview
Yes, it’s that time again, when I list the books in the year just passed that I have most enjoyed. I’ve been doing this since 2014. That’s when I started noting authors and titles of books I’d read in a … Continue reading
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Tagged a dominant character, a suitable boy, Alexander Hamilton, american gods, anansi boys, borges, bram stoker, colour of magic, dirtyfilthysexy, discworld, dracula, entangled life, erin morgenstern, fungi, garlic, good omens, james bond, JBS Haldane, just william, kurt vonnegut, Lin-Manuel Miranda, merlin sheldrake, neil gaiman, olaf stapledon, psilocybin, Ron Chernow, samanth subramanian, scarlett thomas, slaughterhouse five, star maker, terry pratchett, the end of mr Y, the night circus, the starless sea, tolkien, van helsing, vietnam war, vikram seth
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Expectation
I’ve been writing books since my twenties. In fact, I have been working on one book or another almost constantly since I finished my first — which was my doctorate thesis, resting unread in a dusty vault in Cambridge. Notwithstanding … Continue reading
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Tagged a very short history of life on earth, language, publishing
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Doings
What have I been up to these past six years? Well, some of it can be found in the archived posts below. For those disinclined to delve, I shall attempt a succinct summary. But how does one even start to … Continue reading
Posted in Apparitions, Cromer, Domesticrox, Writing & Reading
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