On September 1st 1914, in Cincinnati Zoo – one of the oldest in the United States – at around 5:00pm, a bird called Martha, named after George Washington’s wife, was found dead at the bottom of her cage.

A story.

A ghost story,

A new story

I have a rule whenever I’m in a second-hand bookshop. If I come across Dr Who a novel, one of the The Virgin New Adventures series, I buy it. I don’t think about it, I don’t quibble over the price, I don’t leaf through the book, wondering if it’s actually any good. I just pick it up and buy it.