Author Archives: Henry Gee

About Henry Gee

Henry Gee is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist, who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets, inasmuch as which the contents of this blog and any comments therein do not reflect the opinions of anyone but myself, as they don't know where they've been.

Europe

Posted on 24 October 2011 by Henry Gee

I love Europe. A rash of recent trips in the cause of Your Favourite Etcetera has taken me, in recent months, to Amsterdam, Leipzig, Dresden and Switzerland, and I’ll be doing much the same in Helsinki before the year is … Continue reading →

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By The Sea – Now On Kindle

Posted on 22 October 2011 by Henry Gee

With thanks to the good offices of Dr S. C. of Omaha, who pointed me in the right direction, my novel By The Sea is now available for you to buy on Amazon’s Kindle. You can get the ebook from … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire

Posted on 20 October 2011 by Henry Gee

I’ve just returned from a most interesting trip to Yorkshire. First I had to visit the Yorkshire consulate in London where a nice man called Willie Eckerslike renewed my visa and made sure my jabs were up to date, notwithstanding … Continue reading →

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Uploads, Downloads

Posted on 15 October 2011 by Henry Gee

If I hadn’t been going to the football today with my friend Mr W. P. of Cromer, I might not have learned that my novel By The Sea is for sale to read on your iGadget from the iBooks store … Continue reading →

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Excerpt

Posted on 12 October 2011 by Henry Gee

I have been deluged by a request from a Dr J. G. of Sussex to see some of the draft of my ongoing book, The Beowulf Effect: Fossils, Evolution and the Human Condition. I’m now well over 30,000 words in … Continue reading →

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Misquotation

Posted on 9 October 2011 by Henry Gee

As both of you will know by now, my next book, which I’m writing now, will be called The Beowulf Effect: Fossils, Evolution and the Human Condition. In it, I revisit some of the themes I first explored in my … Continue reading →

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Dresden

Posted on 8 October 2011 by Henry Gee

I’m just back from a visit to the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. If I told you what I found out, I’d have to kill you. Suffice it to say that this ex-paleontologist found … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #30

Posted on 2 October 2011 by Henry Gee

Observed, confundingly, outside Cromer Hospital, earlier today

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Tubes

Posted on 2 October 2011 by Henry Gee

You’ll both be familiar now with the build that’s been going on at the Maison des Girrafes for some time now. We’ve now entered that long asymptote known as ‘finishing touches’. Oh yes, the kitchen still hasn’t got a proper … Continue reading →

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Saving Facebook

Posted on 2 October 2011 by Henry Gee

This is by way of a public service announcement for those who are ‘friends’ of mine on Facebook, or think they are but aren’t, or who would like to be, or for people who think they are ‘friends’ of mine … Continue reading →

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