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Books/Writing

How to index a book – or not

Posted on 26 April 2016 by admin

Apart from the obvious difference between fiction and non-fiction – one’s pretend and the other isn’t (more or less) – a non-fiction tex...

Books/Writing

Birmingham RNA Writers Day

Posted on 8 March 2016 by admin

Writing can be a lonely endeavour, so it’s great that there’s ways for us to meet up. There’s local groups, or there’s associations and ...

Personal

Cousin Fred’s garden mausoleum

Posted on 24 January 2016 by admin

What I am about to write might surprise you. Or perhaps not, given that it’s written by someone who’s posed with a skull (don’t worry, it wasn...

Writing

Interview: Verity Holloway and “Beauty Secrets of the Martyrs”

Posted on 1 January 2016 by admin

I was on holiday in Kefalonia as a child when I saw my first dead body: the rather wrinkly 16th century St. Gerasimus. He wasn’t on view for tourists, onl...

Personal/Writing

You don’t need a typewriter to tell a story

Posted on 22 December 2015 by admin

It was the mid-80s: Cliff Richard was on telly, our video player was the size of a small family car, my mum had a perm. My dad’s fondness for pictures of ...

Books/Writing

Lament for an Unavailable Spy

Posted on 15 December 2015 by admin

At some point, Poison Panic will be available on Amazon. How very exciting. Because I had a couple of minutes in which my brain demanded something to do and bec...

Reviews

Review: River, or The Adventure of the Haunted Policeman

Posted on 1 December 2015 by admin

There are hundreds of crime dramas on our TVs, and each one tries to attack this old genre in a new way – set it in Oxford (Inspector Morse), set it in tw...

Films

Review: Spectre, or, UnSpectretacular

Posted on 20 November 2015 by admin

Warning: spoiler-laden. I am a Bond fan. I have read all the Ian Fleming novels, and the short stories, and Kingsley Amis’ study The James Bond Dossier. W...

Personal

Mourning the silence

Posted on 15 November 2015 by admin

For five years, I have lived in world of muffled sounds and no silence. It turns out that I have tinnitus, and I have hearing loss in my right ear; for the past...

Writing

My first blog post

Posted on 16 October 2015 by admin

Just last week, I was giving a talk about ‘Social media for authors’ at Book to the Future – the University of Birmingham’s literature f...

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