{"id":18075,"date":"2025-08-29T18:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?page_id=18075"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:11:50","slug":"my-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/my-books\/","title":{"rendered":"My books"},"content":{"rendered":"

2022: Many years in the making, the scholarly book Tree & Star: Tolkien and the quest for Earendel<\/a><\/em>. 200,000 words, 472 pages with index and more. Available in paperback or ebook.<\/p>\n

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2019: The Cracks of Doom: Untold Tales in Middle-earth<\/a><\/em>. A book of 22,000 words which lists 125 ‘Untold Tales’ in Middle-earth, pointing out the ‘cracks’ where new fan-fiction might be developed. There’s also an ebook version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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2018: Strange Country: Sir Gawain in the moorlands of North Staffordshire. An investigation.<\/a><\/em> Print edition in paperback, with an expanded ebook edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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2018 (ongoing): The Folk-lore of North Staffordshire<\/a><\/em>. A free comprehensive annotated bibliography in PDF. Updated annually, and at December 2025 in its final v2.0 form.<\/p>\n

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2017: H. G. Wells in the Potteries: North Staffordshire and the genesis of The Time Machine.<\/a><\/em> Print edition available, with an ebook edition coming soon.<\/p>\n

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Novel: The Spyders of Burslem.<\/a><\/em> The novel that started this blog. Print and ebook.<\/p>\n

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Readers of this blog may also be interested in my local history of Burslem and its valley, written for a lay audience back in circa 2005, the short book A History of Burslem & The Fowlea Valley<\/a><\/em>. Available at Lulu.com.<\/p>\n

“an exceptional, easy-to-read, well illustrated book … Well done to the author!” — Fred Hughes, local historian and author.<\/p>\n

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I also have eight scholarly books on the life and historical context of the author H.P. Lovecraft, available on Lulu and Amazon.<\/p>\n

It’s also possible to read the best of the Spyders<\/em> blog as an ebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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