Well, we are all staying at home and keeping social distancing for the foreseeable future. My wife and I will not be going on any cruises any time soon, so I am working on my reading and writing.

More Clerical Investigations of the Reverend Lyle Thorne has been published, but word has yet to get round. I worked harder on that book than on any of the previous ones, and I am pleased and proud of the result.

I am currently working on a “Text and Critical Introduction” to Jane Austen’s three unfinished and unpublished novels (Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon). These are neglected Austen texts

What next? Well, I would like to write Last Clerical Investigations of the Reverend Lyle Thorne. After 41 stories, however, thinking of new plots, without repeating oneself, is a problem. I am also considering going back to Soren Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragment or Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Women. Each would be a real intellectual challenge, which I would enjoy, but I have to be honest and say that neither book would actually sell many copies.

Perhaps I’ll put my energies into products for Teachers Pay Teachers. Watch this space!!!