Jemahl Evans interview Part Two
Concluding part of Jemahl Evans Interview Samuel Butler -Poet- 1613- 1680 . Portrait by Pieter Borsseler courtesy Wiki Commons Continuing my interview with novelist Jemahl Evans . Part One is here To recap slightly Jemahl's lead character is one Sir Blandford Candy- " an irascible old drunk with a hatred of poets and a love of hats" : In fact 'hatred' is probably too mellow a word to describe the seething contempt he has for Samuel Butler and the poem ' Hudibras' . Blandford was ninety five years old in 1719, and the sole surviving Roundhead. One enthusiast summed up Jemahl's 2015 novel, 'The Last Roundhead', as '"Flashman meets the Three Muskateers in a picaresque romp through Stuart England" and the sequel, 'This Deceitful Light' , is ce