BY ED CHURCH (April 2020) When writing a book, self-doubt is never a million miles away. At some point, a familiar question will always find a way of popping into your head… ‘Is this really any good?’. When I was in the police, a similar feeling would sometimes creep up on me at the start […]
THE TEAM THAT SURVIVED WW1
BY ED CHURCH (Nov 2020) Even for a club whose early decades were so illustrious, there is something special about the Aston Villa side that lifted the FA Cup in 1913. The fact that all eleven players would go on to survive the First World War is remarkable enough. That so many would still be […]
DEBATABLE?
BY ED CHURCH (August 2020) We live in a shouty world, don’t we? One where the volume on public discourse seems stuck on Max, the media act as fight promoters, and we are encouraged to spend our days at constant loggerheads with one another. I’ve been even more aware of this since re-joining social media […]
3020 VISION
BY ED CHURCH (May 2020) The theme of old photos crops up a few times in Non-Suspicious. Safe to say, I have a bit of a thing for them. When ensconced in one of my favourite writing venues (old pubs) my breaks generally involve putting the pen down and taking myself on a tour of […]