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This scene came as a surprise to me very late on in the writing of I Am Not Gog, and it was great fun for me, at least. It comes at a time just prior to a gre
When revolution was fomented over breakfast in a Cleethorpes bed and breakfast. An insight into the novel I Am Not Gog and the way society’s consent is manufactured...
The image here was the first, rudimentary sketch of Lydia by Su Koh. It is nicely loaded with ambiguity and foreboding. Ambiguity of identity is central to the
Lydia Japhethson's Name. The image here is of an early sketch by Su Koh when brainstorming designs for the cover of I Am Not Gog. It depicts the main character, Lydia. The linked blog at matthewjameshunt.co.uk discusses how her name came about and what it represents allegorically.
[Spoiler alert] Tomorrow marks the fourth anniversary of I Am Not Gog ’s publication. There are two churches in Lydia’s story. Four years after publishing it, I...
Coincidence and the subconscious in writing fiction. When the pen goes its own way and surprises the writer years after the fact…
We need to talk about evil and what it's doing in the novel I Am Not Gog . “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powe...
This image is a table of the hierarchy of evil represented allegorically in the novel I Am Not Gog, explained in the linked blog (Oct 2017) at matthewjameshunt.uk
Huge thanks to Scott Hughes and all at @onlinebookclub-org for making I Am Not Gog Book of the Day yesterday. The best part was engaging with so many enthusiastic readers! Hundreds of them! It was so heartening. Many thanks to all those lovely readers who supported the book with comments etc, and thanks to all those who downloaded the book. So many new readers! It's like making hundreds of new friends. Can't wait to read your reviews. Bravo!
The life of a slave has not always been a disagreeable existence. Often, it was quite comfortable and felicitous, comparable to modern employment, with benefits...
This is the lake in Cleethorpes Country Park, a location in the novel I Am Not Gog. The photo was taken on a research trip in 2006. This blog looks at the third allegorical strand running through the novel: that of the desert wanderings of the ancient Isrealites.
How might the rantings of a grumpy prophet in ancient Babylon come to throw light on who was really to blame for a murder in a quiet Leicestershire town in 2005...
The second in a series of blogs examining the allegorical strands of the novel I Am Not Gog, The picture here is The Prophet Ezekiel by P.P. Rubens. Louvre. Image by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (cropped).
Alexander the Great was not a good or nice man. He was an imperialist warmonger. Thousands of innocents died because of his megalomaniac desire to rule the worl...
Here’s a blog looking at the first strand of allegory in the novel I Am Not Gog, drawing on central Eurasian mythology.
