Posts by Chris Calder
“Arkwright's” In France
Tucked away down a side alley in a sleepy rural town nearby is a small hardware emporium of the old-fashioned kind. Stock is displayed apparently randomly from floor to ceiling, with garden implements, tools, pots and pans and all manner of domestic paraphernalia jostling for space on the ancient wooden shelves. If you are British…
Read MoreThe Visitor
A few months ago on a bright, sunny but chilly Sunday morning, we had a visitor. Outside the glass patio doors that lead from our dining kitchen to the garden, there is a small area of wooden decking. And on that morning on the decking, we had a visitor, a wild dog fox. It seems that in…
Read MoreThe Awful Truth
In 1937, master tailor Isaac Bartelewski left his home in the Sudetenland and settled with his wife and son in London, where he soon established a reputation as the best bespoke tailor in the Mile End Road. Isaac worked long hours but every morning he took a tea break in Jacko’s tearoom. In those days…
Read MoreDrama In The Theatre
This is a true story. The incident occurred quite recently, in France where I live. Let me share with you the experience I had immediately following an operation. It was the first of two which I needed to rid me of something nasty inside me. The surgeon used an endoscope, the tube thingy with some…
Read MoreWhat’s the story behind Payback?
My maiden novel is called Payback. It is a pacey revenge thriller which drew heavily on my own life experiences. Geoff Summers, a brilliant designer of electronic control systems for a company that makes anti-burglar equipment, becomes a cold, ruthless criminal when his vindictive new managing director prevents him from fulfilling his wife’s dying wish. The…
Read MoreWhy?
Two days after D day. Or rather, R day. R for referendum, R for rejection, R for rage, R for ….reform? Certainly, I believe, R for the regret that is to come. As one who chose to move to France some eight years ago, I am astonished and dismayed at the result of the United…
Read MoreIs He Still Alive?
Well, is he? Yes, so long as you can see something new when you visit this page. So, thank you for dropping in. As a writer I try never to forget that readers of fiction are entitled to expect to be diverted and entertained. That will always be my first aim. Find out more at…
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