Epic Iran
(Gold model of a chariot, 500-330BC) In the book I’m writing at […]
‘British’.
I’d not long started my career in videogames when a game designer […]
Books – Stop Being Reasonable & The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
With regard to arguing with others about who we should be and […]
Books – Whiteshift
Whiteshift, by Eric Kaufman, is an easy book to recommend you read, […]
Books – Janesville. A premonition?
I’m reflecting on the aftermath of a UK election result that I, […]
Books – Roadside Picnic & Beneath The World, A Sea
These two books, one old, one new, continue my lucky streak of […]
Every step you take…Part 2 – Surveillance Capitalism
“Maybe you don’t want to ask a question. Maybe you just want […]
I can’t change my mind.
I’m left-wing. I think I know what that means, but I’m never […]
Books – Landmarks & Postcapitalism
With the third book’s first draft completed and no more deadlines at […]
Books – The Sheltering Sky, The Damned United, The Raven Tower and Lanark
I’ve been busy finishing my third novel. While I was wrestling with […]
Books – The Blind Assassin
“In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s […]
Books – All Among The Barley & The Gutter Prayer
1930’s rural England seen through the eyes of a troubled young girl […]
Books – So Long, See You Tomorrow & Rosewater
I needed to step away from sff reading at least briefly, mix […]
I used to stand in bookshops pt 3
In the last episode… I had just seen my book for the […]
Books – The Wake and Rotherweird
The Green Man figure from the folklore of numerous cultures and religions […]
Picasso and Tolkien and obsession
“Everything we love is about to die, and that is why everything […]
The Winter Road. The other road.
My second novel is called The Winter Road and it’s out in […]
Books – The Fifth Season & Nigerians In Space
As saddened by the whole Hugo ‘puppy’ bullshit as any right-thinking person […]
Newsletter #4 – Scythians, Gods and Rogues
This is a big chunk of my latest newsletter. I’ll drop them […]
Books – The Southern Reach trilogy
I love Jeff Vandermeer’s work because I love HP Lovecraft’s work. But […]
Newsletter #1
Here’s the contents of the first newsletter I sent out to my […]
Every step you take…
…aka ‘Why I’ve decided to boycott Facebook and Google.’ It began innocently […]
Books – Aurora and Ninefox Gambit
I’m reading a bit of sci-fi at the moment as I’m woefully […]
Books – Dark Tales
Dark Tales, by Shirley Jackson, is a hugely effective collection of short […]
Books – The Familiar Volume 1 & A Stranger In Olondria
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a […]
Books – Senlin Ascends & The Sudden Appearance of Hope
I do almost all my reading on the bus. Thus, my go-to […]
Books – The Name of the Wind
“I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the-mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily […]
Books – Beyond Redemption and Hunters & Collectors
In the last few weeks I’ve read two great books; both are […]
Books – The Buried Giant & The Quarantined City
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant bolsters the list of fantasy genre writing […]
Last week: Art, devils, witches and death
They’ve always seemed easy to parody, the Abstract Expressionists. ‘They just flicked […]