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Brother Red

The Winter Road

Snakewood

Maps

August 2, 2021August 4, 2021Misc.

Epic Iran

(Gold model of a chariot, 500-330BC) In the book I’m writing at […]

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February 10, 2021August 4, 2021Misc.

‘British’.

I’d not long started my career in videogames when a game designer […]

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July 26, 2020August 4, 2021Reading

Books – Stop Being Reasonable & The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

With regard to arguing with others about who we should be and […]

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April 1, 2020August 4, 2021Reading

Books – Whiteshift

Whiteshift, by Eric Kaufman, is an easy book to recommend you read, […]

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December 14, 2019December 14, 2019Reading

Books – Janesville. A premonition?

I’m reflecting on the aftermath of a UK election result that I, […]

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December 8, 2019August 4, 2021Reading

Books – Roadside Picnic & Beneath The World, A Sea

These two books, one old, one new, continue my lucky streak of […]

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September 11, 2019April 23, 2020Misc.

Every step you take…Part 2 – Surveillance Capitalism

“Maybe you don’t want to ask a question. Maybe you just want […]

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July 17, 2019August 4, 2021Misc.

I can’t change my mind.

I’m left-wing. I think I know what that means, but I’m never […]

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June 19, 2019August 4, 2021Reading

Books – Landmarks & Postcapitalism

With the third book’s first draft completed and no more deadlines at […]

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May 19, 2019August 4, 2021Reading

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 […]

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February 22, 2019August 4, 2021Reading

Books – The Blind Assassin

“In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s […]

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January 28, 2019August 4, 2021Reading

Books – All Among The Barley & The Gutter Prayer

1930’s rural England seen through the eyes of a troubled young girl […]

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December 1, 2018August 4, 2021Reading

Books – So Long, See You Tomorrow & Rosewater

I needed to step away from sff reading at least briefly, mix […]

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Me with my new book The Winter Road
November 17, 2018August 4, 2021Writing and publishing

I used to stand in bookshops pt 3

In the last episode… I had just seen my book for the […]

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October 16, 2018August 4, 2021Reading

Books – The Wake and Rotherweird

The Green Man figure from the folklore of numerous cultures and religions […]

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Tolkien painting of Bilbo
September 22, 2018August 4, 2021Misc.

Picasso and Tolkien and obsession

“Everything we love is about to die, and that is why everything […]

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April 27, 2018August 4, 2021Writing and publishing

The Winter Road. The other road.

My second novel is called The Winter Road and it’s out in […]

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March 20, 2018August 4, 2021Reading

Books – The Fifth Season & Nigerians In Space

As saddened by the whole Hugo ‘puppy’ bullshit as any right-thinking person […]

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January 7, 2018August 4, 2021Misc.

Newsletter #4 – Scythians, Gods and Rogues

This is a big chunk of my latest newsletter. I’ll drop them […]

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December 22, 2017August 4, 2021Reading

Books – The Southern Reach trilogy

I love Jeff Vandermeer’s work because I love HP Lovecraft’s work. But […]

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November 19, 2017August 4, 2021Misc., Writing and publishing

Newsletter #1

Here’s the contents of the first newsletter I sent out to my […]

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November 4, 2017August 4, 2021Misc.

Every step you take…

…aka ‘Why I’ve decided to boycott Facebook and Google.’ It began innocently […]

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October 7, 2017August 4, 2021Reading

Books – Aurora and Ninefox Gambit

I’m reading a bit of sci-fi at the moment as I’m woefully […]

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September 19, 2017Reading

Books – Dark Tales

Dark Tales, by Shirley Jackson, is a hugely effective collection of short […]

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July 19, 2017August 4, 2021Reading

Books – The Familiar Volume 1 & A Stranger In Olondria

“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a […]

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February 10, 2017August 4, 2021Reading

Books – Senlin Ascends & The Sudden Appearance of Hope

I do almost all my reading on the bus. Thus, my go-to […]

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January 7, 2017August 4, 2021Reading

Books – The Name of the Wind

“I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the-mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily […]

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December 22, 2016August 4, 2021Reading

Books – Beyond Redemption and Hunters & Collectors

In the last few weeks I’ve read two great books; both are […]

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November 28, 2016Reading

Books – The Buried Giant & The Quarantined City

Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant bolsters the list of fantasy genre writing […]

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November 8, 2016August 4, 2021Misc.

Last week: Art, devils, witches and death

They’ve always seemed easy to parody, the Abstract Expressionists. ‘They just flicked […]

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