Hopkins, Gladstone and The Hopkins Conundrum
At the annual Monasterevin Hopkins festival in County Kildare, Ireland, earlier this month, the leading Hopkins scholar Dr Norman White...
The Wreck of the Deutschland: a new recording
When I appeared on Edward Stourton's Sunday programme on BBC Radio 4, I was asked to read the first stanza of The Wreck. After the...
The lure of Rome
Here's a video I made for Digital Pride, explaining the attraction of Roman Catholicism for Victorian men like Hopkins who found...
Only got a minute?
Then watch my 60-second trailer – I tell a lie, it's actually 61 seconds – explaining what The Hopkins Conundrum is all about. Thanks to...
Why is it called The Hopkins Conundrum?
WHAT precisely is the conundrum? Watch the video to learn how the novel got its title
