Christopher Fowler's Blog, page 202

The Dreamliner Of Space

When space was still the ultimate goal and perfect fantasy, Concorde was a dream come true. Now a group of Concorde fans have raised 120 million to try and get one of the decommissioned Concorde aircraft back in the skies by 2019. They’reex-captains, ex-charterers and people passionate about Concorde, and the models they want are […]

The End Of Summer

I’ve just woken up. It’s hot, but the air has changed. Summer is dying. It’s not something we particularly celebrate or commemorate in any form in London, but across Europe the end of summer is a special event in the calendar. In Spain and Italy it’s marked by fireworks, bonfires and festivals. In France the […]

There Really Was A Golden Age Of Murder

As some of you know,I write a weekly column for the Independent on Sunday called ‘Invisible Ink’, about once massively popular authors who have now become a minority taste or who have vanished altogether. I thought carefully about including Margery Allingham in the column. She’s hardly ever out of print, and readers certainly know her […]

Upcoming Launches & Signings

Two for the diary if you’re in London; there’ll be a signing at Forbidden Planetprobablyon October 18th – I’ll confirm this in the next few days – for ‘The Sand Men’, and I daresay we’ll be having a few beers after in a nearby pub, probably The Angel – all welcome (I always assume my […]

The Weird World Of Video Nasties

There were two separate editions of ‘Film Freak’. The paperback version corrected a couple of minor errors and added another chapter that had needed to be cleared for publication, leading to slightly different versions of the same book. I had wanted to explain more about the rising fear of home video influencing young minds […]

Moving Londoners About

Another day, another poll, but there are some surprises here. Now that London is the 3rd most expensive place on our planet after the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, the things we hate most have appeared in yet another new survey (please tell me when you’re bored with these damned things!). 37.8 per cent of respondents […]

Hello Dali

I once met Salvador Dali. It was – no surprise here – a completely unexpected experience. In the 1970s the great surrealist came to London to arrange for the sale of a set of limited edition etchings based on the travels of Don Quixote. I attended a meeting between him, his UK agent and some […]

A Postcard From…

No post today, I’m in…Sardinia. Let’s just say the wi-fi is unusually difficult to pinpoint where I am, in the hills. I’ll keep trying!

Taking Theatre To The Streets

Slung Low isa company that makes adventures for audiences outside of conventional theatre spaces, a cutting-edge theatre organisation with a real difference; its productions ramble, crash and (in the case of ‘Moby Dick’) float across the area in and around West Yorkshire and Leeds, with public art, writers’ workshops, classics, interactive and music events that […]

I Knew I’d Seen Him Somewhere Before

The gloves are finally off and people are making fun of Donald Trump’s bizarre looks after hemade disparaging comments on Carly Fiornia’s appearance. I think ‘Trump Face’ may become a new world insult. Open Season!