Epic Iran
(Gold model of a chariot, 500-330BC) In the book I’m writing at […]
(Gold model of a chariot, 500-330BC) In the book I’m writing at […]
I’d not long started my career in videogames when a game designer […]
With regard to arguing with others about who we should be and […]
Whiteshift, by Eric Kaufman, is an easy book to recommend you read, […]
I’m reflecting on the aftermath of a UK election result that I, […]
These two books, one old, one new, continue my lucky streak of […]
“Maybe you don’t want to ask a question. Maybe you just want […]
I’m left-wing. I think I know what that means, but I’m never […]
With the third book’s first draft completed and no more deadlines at […]
I’ve been busy finishing my third novel. While I was wrestling with […]
“In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s […]
1930’s rural England seen through the eyes of a troubled young girl […]
I needed to step away from sff reading at least briefly, mix […]
In the last episode… I had just seen my book for the […]
The Green Man figure from the folklore of numerous cultures and religions […]
“Everything we love is about to die, and that is why everything […]
My second novel is called The Winter Road and it’s out in […]
As saddened by the whole Hugo ‘puppy’ bullshit as any right-thinking person […]
This is a big chunk of my latest newsletter. I’ll drop them […]
I love Jeff Vandermeer’s work because I love HP Lovecraft’s work. But […]
Here’s the contents of the first newsletter I sent out to my […]
…aka ‘Why I’ve decided to boycott Facebook and Google.’ It began innocently […]
I’m reading a bit of sci-fi at the moment as I’m woefully […]
Dark Tales, by Shirley Jackson, is a hugely effective collection of short […]
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a […]
I do almost all my reading on the bus. Thus, my go-to […]
“I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the-mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily […]
In the last few weeks I’ve read two great books; both are […]
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant bolsters the list of fantasy genre writing […]
They’ve always seemed easy to parody, the Abstract Expressionists. ‘They just flicked […]