The Poem of Force
Thoughts on The Iliad
More Substacking, about the Iliad this time
open.substack.com/pub/richards...
13.03.2026 10:46
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11.03.2026 10:23
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Sometimes I look at a view like this and wonder about all the different stories behind each window, and then I realise it's probably just people sitting looking at their phones.
10.03.2026 20:37
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Night Fire
'Every page, every sentence bears a remarkable intellig…
Even on the evil horrorshow of Goodreads, people seem to be really enjoying my second novel: five 5-star reviews so far! Only six weeks until Night Fire is published now...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
10.03.2026 14:57
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You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen
09.03.2026 17:56
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Bit of a detour from my current Iliad-centric reading: an old favourite, The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll.
06.03.2026 19:49
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A copy of The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan
The only book you need for #Worldbookday (and every day thereafter)...
05.03.2026 12:23
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Currently reading The Mighty Dead by Adam Nicolson: absolutely thrilling, one of the best works of non-fiction I've read for ages.
04.03.2026 19:20
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It's a fascinating article, I think bands/musicians really are an entry point to literature for loads of people.
04.03.2026 15:43
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Always an exciting moment when you're sent the final cover spread for your book!
03.03.2026 12:18
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"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..."
01.03.2026 20:48
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Massive ship at Leith docks today
01.03.2026 19:22
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Moronic Lord of the Flies discourse now as irritating to me as moronic Wuthering Heights discourse.
01.03.2026 18:01
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Lord of the Flies is wrong about humanity
"Novelists quite often stack the cards to ensure the results they want."
Yes... that does tend to be the way it works...
unherd.com/2026/02/lord...
01.03.2026 17:58
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Totally agree, big fan of this
27.02.2026 16:31
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Richard Strachan: Night Fire
Join Richard Strachan as he chats about his new book, Night Fire
Book launch incoming!
The launch for my second novel, Night Fire, will be at Blackwell's Edinburgh on 23 April. Comments and shares very much appreciated, but don't worry - this won't be the last you hear of it...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-st...
27.02.2026 10:01
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Yet more copies of The Unrecovered signed @goldenharebooks.bsky.social!
23.02.2026 12:22
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All the best!
22.02.2026 11:34
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Absolutely fascinating interview with Prof Tony Pollard in the Herald today. I was lucky enough to be taught by Tony on the first year of the Battlefield & Conflict Archaeology Masters degree, at Glasgow, in 2006/07, a genuinely transformative experience for me.
archive.is/w3ezu
22.02.2026 09:04
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Last day of this offer at Waterstones! Preorder now, etc
20.02.2026 09:34
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Pleased to see Night Fire in @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off preorder off this week!
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17.02.2026 08:15
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Hurray for @waterstones.bsky.social's 25% off books publishing very soon www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... not least because it features some of our cracking @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social authors including @richardstrachan.bsky.social's historical masterpiece, Night Fire
17.02.2026 10:38
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Pleased to see Night Fire in @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off preorder off this week!
www.waterstones.com/book/night-f...
17.02.2026 08:15
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Herodotus, Ondaatje
Current reading
New Substack post, on Herodotus and Ondaatje's The English Patient:
open.substack.com/pub/richards...
13.02.2026 11:54
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Bird(s) in the hand.
11.02.2026 11:42
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