Author Archives: Reynard

About Reynard

I'm the Pub Manager for the Green Man Pub which is located at the KInrowan Estate. I'm married to Ingrid, our Steward who's also the Estate Buyer. If I'm off duty and in a mood for a drink, it'll be a single malt, either Irish or Scottish, no water or ice, or possibly an Estate ale or cider. I'm a concertina player, and unlike my wife who has a fine singing voice, I do not have anything of a singing voice anyone want to hear!

What’s New for the 4th of January: Favorite books and music of 2025

Posted on 4th January 2026 by Reynard

To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose, under heaven Pete Seeger’s “Turn! Turn! Turn!” We’ve given over this edition to Gary, our music editor extraordinaire, who’s telling us about the … Continue reading →

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What’s New for 7 of December: books by Alan Garner, and holiday music new and old, Celtic, Americana, jazz and more

Posted on 7th December 2025 by Reynard

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting. — Alan Garner’s The Owl Service We’ve got our first snow here at the Kinrowan Estate — not that much but … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 9th of November: rhymers and ravens, folk songs and folk tales, jazz guitar and dark forests and constellations put to music, Hungarian tunes and knights and rakes and tinkers and fools, and more

Posted on 9th November 2025 by Reynard

The fiddle playing that tune had a mute on its bridge, substantially reducing the volume of the music, but it was still loud enough for the woman to lift her head and smile when she heard it. She knew that … Continue reading →

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Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums

Posted on 26th October 2025 by Reynard

She was tall for her age, and lean, a great tree-climber and a magnificent storyteller — Patricia McKillip’s Winter Rose Here in this quite remote Scottish Estate where the nearest town’s a good thirty-five miles away, the group of less than … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 14th of September: Books, film and music with a piratical theme; plus Corsican polyphony, Balkan sevdah, Americana music, Hardanger fiddle with reindeer, Latin jazz and piano trios

Posted on 14th September 2025 by Reynard

The lie wasn’t meant to be believed. It was just social grease, intended to keep wheels turning. — Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger Ahoy, matey! Gary, music editor, here with another new edition to shiver yer timbers. With International Talk Like … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee

Posted on 7th September 2025 by Reynard

Let me tell the tale of Irish coffee while I fix you one. It is said the very first Irish coffee was invented by Joseph Sheridan, a barkeep at an airbase located in Foynes, a small town in the West … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 20th of July: Lots of Elizabeth Bear including The Folded Sky; tomatoes; a Hobbit film; new jazz and archival reviews; Charles Vess ballads and sagas; and an offbeat Ellen Kushner adaptation

Posted on 20th July 2025 by Reynard

“Butterflies are not insects,” Captain John Sterling said soberly. They are self-propelled flowers.” — Robert A. Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks Through Walls To celebrate the release of a new Elizabeth Bear White Space novel, we’re running Gary’s review of it … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 6th of July:

Posted on 6th July 2025 by Reynard

Not until then did they notice that Gandalf was missing. So far he had come all the way with them, never saying if he was in the adventure or merely keeping them company for a while. He had eaten most, … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Mama Kin

Posted on 28th June 2025 by Reynard

She was simply dressed clothes of summer colours and she had a traveling bag over her back and a flute case as well. She had a travelling bag over her shoulder, and the Estate cats were following her up the path to the Manor … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 11th of May: Special Jack Zipes edition on fairy tales; an obsure Tam Lin film treatment; songs that tell stories; new jazz, Danish fiddle tunes, Norwegian women’s vocal music; Russian and Eastern European food and cooking, and morebb

Posted on 11th May 2025 by Reynard

The Palace was more than four hundred years old and had served its purpose; it would be unbecoming to despise it for showing its age. But there was now one spot within it of something new. Turn your thought to … Continue reading →

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