I got mailed a gun the other day… No, I haven’t joined a terrorist group, nor investigated the loonier regions of e-bay. The gun came as promotion, a rare occurrence in the book trade. I have on occasion received promo artisan chocolate (‘we do bribery and corruption properly’, said the PR lady), and a really […]

It began with bloodcurdling screams in the night… Such is not the usual stuff of an Overland blog, although the chief protagonist was born in the former Soviet empire of Russia, and in attitude can best be described as bolshy. They (gender-neutral pronoun) were also under a foot tall, with very long black legs and […]