Good movies
I don’t normally review film on this site, and don’t plan to start. But I rent regularly from Lovefilm.com (for those of you reading in America, it’s a…
New publication: Quarter Passed
I’ve got an essay included in the new book Quarter Passed, published in the USA by Twenty Stories Publishing. It’s a compilation…
Tonight on the Holloway Road
I’m gettin ready for a talk at Islington North library, just off the Holloway Road, tonight at 6:30pm. I’m a bit nervous…
London, Glamour and Grime
I’ve been asked to judge a short story contest run by the London Bridge Festival. Entry is free, word limit is 1,000…
Review in Notes from the Underground
My agent just spotted a great little review of my book in the latest issue of Notes from the Underground:
Monday Morning Inspiration #9
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But…
Home
A YouTube rarity – a professionally shot, high definition, one and a half hour video. It’s about the planet Earth and our…
“Nocturnes” by Kazuo Ishiguro
First of all, let me say that I’m a bit of an Ishiguro fan. I’ve read all but one of his novels,…
Death and the King’s Horseman
Went to see this play by Nobel-prize-winning Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka at the National Theatre, and it was fantastic. I don’t go…