You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe.
Will you be all right driving in this snow? She found that hilarious. This is not snow, she said. Where I’m from, you know, you have snow when you can’t find your car the next morning.
What's it a charm for?' she asked.The man thought about this for a moment.'It's your basic all-enveloping protection charm,' he said, his hands describing a cupped circle in the air. 'For protection a...
What are my options? she asked as I climbed into the driver’s seat. Meaningless euphemisms at one end and your full-on Unseen University at the other, I said. The Unseen University is a bit like Hogwa...
We were suffering a standard gray London drizzle, the sort that makes it clear that it can keep it up all day if needs be.
Urban Outfitters, eh, said Beverley. That explains the Dr Denim shirt.My mum bought me that, I said.And you think that's less embarrassing?
This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly, sucks to be you, quadruped.
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
There’s more to life than just London,’ said Nightingale. ‘People keep saying that,’ I said. ‘But I’ve never actually seen any proof.
The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.
The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.
The bouncer scrutinized my face. Do I know you? he asked. No, I thought, but you might remember me from such Saturday-night hits as Would you please put that punter down I’d like to arrest him, You ca...
So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So
So magic is real,’ I said. ‘Which makes you a … what?’‘A wizard.’‘Like Harry Potter?’Nightingale sighed. ‘No,’ he said, ‘not like Harry Potter.’‘In what way?’‘I’m not a fictional character,’ said Nigh...
Sir Isaac Newton legendarily wrote the famous Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which gave us principles that a couple of hundred years later were good enough to land a man on the moon. The...
She was slender and dressed like an Edwardian maid, complete with a starched white bib apron over a full black skirt and white cotton blouse. Her face didn’t fit her outfit, being too long and sharp-b...
One thing for certain, Abigail who lived up the road was going on my watch list. In fact I was going to create a watch list just so I could put Abigail at the top of it.
Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police offic...
Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people.
Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn’t in the mad oligarch class but once you’re past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial s...