Best reads of 2022
09 January 2023So, now that the dust has settled on 2022, here's my reading round-up for the year. (I meant to do this last week, but kept forgetting!)
In total I read 47 books (although I'm still ploughing...
Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo
08 January 2023Over the Christmas holidays, the Shan clan went on a day trip to Dublin, partly to visit Funderland, but mainly to go to Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo. Mrs Shan had wanted to go to this for quite a few...
Zero time - part 1
07 January 2023A hugely talented fan of my books, called ZERO, drew a series of sketches based on scenes in Cirque Du Freak, and I'm delighted to share the first four of them, all of which relate to the first...
First bookshelfies of 2023
06 January 2023It's my first bookshelves post of 2023 -- hurrah!!!
BORIS likes to stack his Shan collection horizontally (I know some bibliophiles find this notion heretical, but I stack some of MY collection...
Lo Graham - scream queen
05 January 2023Whatever one's opinions about the Cirque Du Freak movie, released back in 2009, there's no denying it had one heck of a talented, well-established cast of HUGE cinema and TV stars -- John C Reilly,...
No laughing matter?!?
04 January 2023This is a bit of an odd one! There was an article on Screen Rant a while back, about vampire movies, which included the Cirque Du Freak film among its list of included titles -- nothing strange...