David Gladwin
@dlgladwin.bsky.social
My novella Coldwell is published by Road Song - https://roadsongbooks.com/product/coldwell/
Environmental modernism:
Wensum Literary Magazine https://wensumlit.co.uk/issue-4-autumn-2023/
Further exploring:
Echtrai http://anmorstudio.uk
Environmental modernism:
Wensum Literary Magazine https://wensumlit.co.uk/issue-4-autumn-2023/
Further exploring:
Echtrai http://anmorstudio.uk
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December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The new novella by Alan Edward Roberts.
Gentle November is available to order right now.
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The new novella by Alan Edward Roberts.
Gentle November is available to order right now.
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Coldwell - Related Works 5: The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (2014). Set in the years after the Norman Conquest, this novel is written in what Kingsnorth calls a "shadow tongue" - a modern rendering of Old English. At once distancing and involving, like Will Coldwell's narrative in my novella.
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Coldwell - Related Works 5: The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (2014). Set in the years after the Norman Conquest, this novel is written in what Kingsnorth calls a "shadow tongue" - a modern rendering of Old English. At once distancing and involving, like Will Coldwell's narrative in my novella.
Interesting and possibly unique copy of Coldwell, featuring some inside pages from Secret Princesses Book 2: Dolphin Adventure by Rosie Banks.
Can only hope there's not an opposite copy somewhere, with Coldwell inside the covers of Rosie's book.
Can only hope there's not an opposite copy somewhere, with Coldwell inside the covers of Rosie's book.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Interesting and possibly unique copy of Coldwell, featuring some inside pages from Secret Princesses Book 2: Dolphin Adventure by Rosie Banks.
Can only hope there's not an opposite copy somewhere, with Coldwell inside the covers of Rosie's book.
Can only hope there's not an opposite copy somewhere, with Coldwell inside the covers of Rosie's book.
Not playing, but looks like…
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not playing, but looks like…
Coldwell - Related Works 4: Grendel by John Gardner (1972). Beowulf retold from the monster's existentialist perspective. A new take on a familiar tale which prefigures the retelling of the Eyam plague in Coldwell. As with Owd Jack, Grendel can see through the human society he observes and opposes.
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Coldwell - Related Works 4: Grendel by John Gardner (1972). Beowulf retold from the monster's existentialist perspective. A new take on a familiar tale which prefigures the retelling of the Eyam plague in Coldwell. As with Owd Jack, Grendel can see through the human society he observes and opposes.
Bit harsh, was my first thought.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Bit harsh, was my first thought.
Writing advice from musicians - an occasional series.
"Play what you know, and play above what you know.” Miles Davis.
"Play what you know, and play above what you know.” Miles Davis.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Writing advice from musicians - an occasional series.
"Play what you know, and play above what you know.” Miles Davis.
"Play what you know, and play above what you know.” Miles Davis.
Also working on edits in a novel set 330 years later than Coldwell, but also in Derbyshire.
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Also working on edits in a novel set 330 years later than Coldwell, but also in Derbyshire.
Coldwell - Related Works 3: The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in The Strand Magazine (1910) and collected in Tales of Terror and Mystery (1922).
Limestone caves have inspired many writers, and characters such as Will Coldwell, who hears the subterranean voice of Owd Jack.
Limestone caves have inspired many writers, and characters such as Will Coldwell, who hears the subterranean voice of Owd Jack.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Coldwell - Related Works 3: The Terror of Blue John Gap by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in The Strand Magazine (1910) and collected in Tales of Terror and Mystery (1922).
Limestone caves have inspired many writers, and characters such as Will Coldwell, who hears the subterranean voice of Owd Jack.
Limestone caves have inspired many writers, and characters such as Will Coldwell, who hears the subterranean voice of Owd Jack.
Coldwell - Related Works 2: The History of Myddle by Richard Gough (1834).
The language of the late 17th Century CE had its vagaries and peculiarities. The two extracts here highlight the spelling conventions which can be distancing for modern readers.
By contrast, Will Coldwell has his own grammar.
The language of the late 17th Century CE had its vagaries and peculiarities. The two extracts here highlight the spelling conventions which can be distancing for modern readers.
By contrast, Will Coldwell has his own grammar.
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Coldwell - Related Works 2: The History of Myddle by Richard Gough (1834).
The language of the late 17th Century CE had its vagaries and peculiarities. The two extracts here highlight the spelling conventions which can be distancing for modern readers.
By contrast, Will Coldwell has his own grammar.
The language of the late 17th Century CE had its vagaries and peculiarities. The two extracts here highlight the spelling conventions which can be distancing for modern readers.
By contrast, Will Coldwell has his own grammar.
Coldwell in good company with @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social, @drewgum.bsky.social, @rosschops.bsky.social et Al at Derby Market Hall today.
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Coldwell in good company with @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social, @drewgum.bsky.social, @rosschops.bsky.social et Al at Derby Market Hall today.
Another happy reader of Coldwell, which makes its writer very happy indeed. Thank you, Adam Donovan!
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Another happy reader of Coldwell, which makes its writer very happy indeed. Thank you, Adam Donovan!
Coldwell spotted in @scarthinbooks.bsky.social by Paul Linford at the weekend.
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Coldwell spotted in @scarthinbooks.bsky.social by Paul Linford at the weekend.
My novella Coldwell involves the same time and place, from another angle.
Are there worse things out there than the plague?
Published by Road Song Books:
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
Are there worse things out there than the plague?
Published by Road Song Books:
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My novella Coldwell involves the same time and place, from another angle.
Are there worse things out there than the plague?
Published by Road Song Books:
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
Are there worse things out there than the plague?
Published by Road Song Books:
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
Picked up a paperclip. Thank you, Bryan.
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Picked up a paperclip. Thank you, Bryan.
November 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Coldwell - Related Works 1: Gaudete by Ted Hughes (Faber, 1977).
Gaudete lets the other world into the earthly realm by means of a changeling replacing an Anglican clergyman. But is the other world another plane just beyond our own, or something which lives inside us?
Gaudete lets the other world into the earthly realm by means of a changeling replacing an Anglican clergyman. But is the other world another plane just beyond our own, or something which lives inside us?
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Coldwell - Related Works 1: Gaudete by Ted Hughes (Faber, 1977).
Gaudete lets the other world into the earthly realm by means of a changeling replacing an Anglican clergyman. But is the other world another plane just beyond our own, or something which lives inside us?
Gaudete lets the other world into the earthly realm by means of a changeling replacing an Anglican clergyman. But is the other world another plane just beyond our own, or something which lives inside us?
Trolley dash under autumn trees.
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Trolley dash under autumn trees.
Always nice to get musical post on a Saturday morning, but this German parcel has one of those names deployed on the internet by people who’d rather not swear.
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Always nice to get musical post on a Saturday morning, but this German parcel has one of those names deployed on the internet by people who’d rather not swear.
I remember that one! Must look it out again. Meanwhile, if anyone's up for 1666 and all that, here's my novella Coldwell. Plague, the machinations of power and a strong dash of folk horror in the shape of an underground giant.
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I remember that one! Must look it out again. Meanwhile, if anyone's up for 1666 and all that, here's my novella Coldwell. Plague, the machinations of power and a strong dash of folk horror in the shape of an underground giant.
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...
Coldwell plus related works. How are they related? Watch this space for more. And feel free to make suggestions of your own...
1. Ted Hughes - Gaudete.
2. Richard Gough - The History of Myddle.
John Gardner - Grendel.
Arthur Conan Doyle - Tales of Terror and Mystery.
1. Ted Hughes - Gaudete.
2. Richard Gough - The History of Myddle.
John Gardner - Grendel.
Arthur Conan Doyle - Tales of Terror and Mystery.
October 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Coldwell plus related works. How are they related? Watch this space for more. And feel free to make suggestions of your own...
1. Ted Hughes - Gaudete.
2. Richard Gough - The History of Myddle.
John Gardner - Grendel.
Arthur Conan Doyle - Tales of Terror and Mystery.
1. Ted Hughes - Gaudete.
2. Richard Gough - The History of Myddle.
John Gardner - Grendel.
Arthur Conan Doyle - Tales of Terror and Mystery.
Quick circuit of Beverley (including two pubs) with the eldest, home for the weekend.
October 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Quick circuit of Beverley (including two pubs) with the eldest, home for the weekend.
Bryan Stanley Johnson left me a trail of paperclips to follow.
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Bryan Stanley Johnson left me a trail of paperclips to follow.
1. Writing advice from a musician.
2. In a Silent Way, 1969.
3. Coldwell, Wrecking Ball Music and Books, Hull.
4. A new look at an old work.
#saturdaynightsalrightforwriting
2. In a Silent Way, 1969.
3. Coldwell, Wrecking Ball Music and Books, Hull.
4. A new look at an old work.
#saturdaynightsalrightforwriting
October 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
1. Writing advice from a musician.
2. In a Silent Way, 1969.
3. Coldwell, Wrecking Ball Music and Books, Hull.
4. A new look at an old work.
#saturdaynightsalrightforwriting
2. In a Silent Way, 1969.
3. Coldwell, Wrecking Ball Music and Books, Hull.
4. A new look at an old work.
#saturdaynightsalrightforwriting