Mrs Farrell’s Christmas Cake Redux
My mother baked Christmas cakes then for a mid-December delivery. I’ve maintained the tradition. And it’s kept me closer to what matters.
Couture Kart
Me, in the late seventies. Re-enacting a scene from “Whatever happened to Baby Jane?” with my father. It would be twenty years before I’d drive again. Noticeable is the open doors of some of the houses; nobody locked their doors then. Also the almost total absence of...
Everything Happens: Dark, Deranged & Delightful
Jo Perry is well known and loved, round these parts, for her series of “Dead is…” books featuring Charlie & Rose. Those books – which I have described as being what would happen if Samuel Beckett wrote a crime series, as well as being “Like ‘The Wire’ meets ‘The...
A nice piece of ass.
I’m now – officially – a cute ass. Plus: Book signing details and freebies.
Morecambe & Vice & Whats Next?
It's the law, apparently. Well hello there. Just thought I’d drop you a note to bring you up to date on what I’ve been doing, am doing and am going to be doing soon. Last weekend I hoped on an Edinburgh-bound train from London Euston station and headed North towards...
Cage: A fitting end to a Brilliant Icelandic Saga
Cage – like Trap and Snare before it – is a wonderful book. Something – like a puzzle box – that seems straightforward and entertaining but which has many depths, many surprises and which will stay with you long after the last page is turned.