Knightly Enthusiast Gifts

Honey, do you think you could try being a little less over-protective?

"I'm sure you'll grow into it, darling."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

Thomas Mann.

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

Television Readers.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Knight Golfing

Silence of the Chickens...

"NOW can I shoot you out of a cannon?"

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Iris Murdoch

'Isn't it cute the way they compete so hard?'

Swiss army knife

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

Car joust.

'It'll never work. I'm reading 'Of Mice And men' and you haven't even gotten through 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,.'

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

'The Saxon King' pub

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"

"Dare I ask for mustard?"

"I'm not angry, but in the future I’d prefer it if you chewed up her Sue Graftons, not my P.G. Wodehouses."

My Literary Influences

The Predictable Demise of Sir Textalot.

"Those are the failed attempts at my first novel."

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky plan a collaboration - 'War and Punishment'... it'll make us a bundle.

Editor.

'Is this your first book launch?'

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

'The knights are drawing closer'