Archive | April, 2009

Reviewed in the Daily Mail

10 April 2009 · On the Holloway Road · Comments { 1 }

My first review in a national newspaper! Victoria Moore reviewed On the Holloway Road in the Daily Mail. It’s only a short review, along with two other debut novels, but I like what she wrote. Here’s an excerpt: There are echoes of Jack Kerouac in this freewheeling adventure down the CCTV-ed, drizzly corridors of modern [...]

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Mention in Time Out

8 April 2009 · On the Holloway Road · Comments { 0 }

My book got a small spot in this week’s Time Out, in the “Battle of the Books” feature…

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Good company

5 April 2009 · Thinking · Comments { 2 }

Just noticed that my secondary school, Dulwich College, added news of my book to its website. Also learned from the site that some very good writers went to Dulwich: Raymond Chandler, PG Wodehouse, CS Forester, Graham Swift and Michael Ondaatje among others.  If I can be as good as them one day, and be included [...]

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“Anarchy” by Errico Malatesta

3 April 2009 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

With the G20 protests engulfing London this week, and anarchy briefly replacing terror as the bogeyman du jour, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at what anarchism is really all about, according to Errico Malatesta, a leading anarchist thinker of the late 19th and early 20th century. Anarchy is [...]

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Kentish Times article

1 April 2009 · On the Holloway Road · Comments { 0 }
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