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Tickets Available On Door For ‘Plastic’ Launch

Thanks to the start of the summer holidays we still have tickets available for the launch of PLASTIC. This is my dark comedy-thriller about London, credit cards, murder, female empowerment and shopping at gunpoint.

Why did it take six years to get a novel published? I’ll be talking to Joanne Harris at Foyles and signing [...]

Tickets Still Available For ‘Plastic’ Launch

Thanks to the start of the summer holidays we still have tickets available for the launch of PLASTIC. This is my dark comedy-thriller about London, credit cards, murder, female empowerment and shopping at gunpoint.

Why did it take six years to get a novel published? I’ll be talking to Joanne Harris at Foyles and signing [...]

Re:View – ‘Cloud Atlas’

Better a brave failure than a lazy success, I say, but the very brave ‘Cloud Atlas’ cost over $100 million to make and took less than $9 million in the US (it went on to just about recoup its outlay in the rest of the world).

Making a big-budget movie that experiments with the form or [...]

Going Mad In Manchester

Inevitably, this site is largely concerned with London as it’s where I’m from, but I don’t mean to dismiss the rest of the country by making it so. Although I’m not big on countryside, never quite feeling I’ve arrived and settled in a particular place I could properly say was ‘the country’, I do have [...]

Modern-Day Villains

You think we make them up, don’t you? The moustache-twirling villains represented by corporate slimebags and ad agency weasels who make life tough for our heroes (I especially zeroed in on them in my novel ‘Soho Black’)but if we put down half of what was true you wouldn’t believe us. I left many immoral stories [...]

Getting Lost In A Good Story

When you went to the theatre back in the 20th century,the curtains opened and you saw a representation of a drawing room onstage. The son came in from the tennis court, the mother arranged daffodils, and eventually the curtains closed again.

A few nights ago I wandered around an empty printing house in the dark wearing [...]

Just Sign For It – The ‘Plastic’ Launch

The launch of PLASTIC is approaching and you’re all invited. This is my dark comedy-thriller about London, credit cards, murder, female empowerment and shopping at gunpoint.

I’ll be in conversation with friend and author Joanne Harris at Foyle’s, and we’ll be going for a drink afterwards with anyone who cares to join us. The book is [...]

Film Freak 1: Movie Expressions Of Joy

Here’s a new occasional column on the kind of influences that drove me to write ‘Film Freak’. I’m not big on films that involve stupid people firing guns in each others’ faces, but anger and a sense of injustice are the motors that drive 90 percent of Hollywood action films. I have the Naturally Perky [...]

Everyone Loves A Little Lucifer

What do the following names have in common? Winston Churchill, Raymond Chandler, John Lennon, Muriel Spark, JB Priestley, F Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Daphne Du Maurier, Noel Coward.

They all wrote short stories. Some were macabre and fantastical, some involved detectives or ghosts, some were pulpy and sensational, written mainly for personal pleasure, but all were [...]

The London Fry-Up Revisited

Back in 2010 I posted about the most important meal of a writer’s day, breakfast, and as a committed muesli-dodger I continue to assert that you can’t write on fruit and yoghurt. Well, the webiste The London Review Of Breakfast now has its own book, The Breakfast Bible, which teaches everything from making your own [...]