James Gwillim

“Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police officer in need of assistance could find a telephone link to Scotland Yard, a dry space to do “paperwork” and, in certain extreme cases, a life of adventure through space and time.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree

“I heard you’d gone into a monastery.’ Tony nodded. ‘I did, only I didn’t stay long. I couldn’t be doing with all the praying and getting up early, though I kinda liked wearing those robe thingies.’ ‘Cassocks?’ I suggested. ‘No, it’s true.”
― Wilkie Martin, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood

“In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with inadequate footwear.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes

“Show me a cup of tea and I’ll show you at least two historians attached to it.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another