Hi All, Just a brief note to introduce myself. I'm a retired schoolteacher living in Wales with leisure now to explore fictional worlds! At present I'm looking at YA author Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles which detail an alternate history in a world not too dissimilar to ours, and have posted several notes and queries on them on my blog at http://calmgrove.wordpress.com

They're not the only fictional world I've been looking at -- Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast is another, for example -- but it's the one I'm mostly involved with at the moment. I'd be pleased to interact with others also looking at aspects of these worlds.

Final word: I may not visit here as frequently as I may like (life does get in the way of social media!) but I'll try and respond to any comments made here as soon as possible; it just may be later rather than sooner!