I’ve decided to leave well on time.  It’s only just after lunch and I reckon I’ll arrive at the hotel early in the evening.  That means that I will drive most of the way while it’s still daylight.  I get tired driving in the dark for too...

The year’s drawing to an end and so are the noughties.  Papers are being filled with ‘definitive lists’ of great events, the most read books, the best books, etc.  I realise that I haven’t kept pace at all these last few months, I’ve...

Clearly I have not written an awful lot these last few weeks.  That does not mean I have not been reading or thinking or working.  I’ve done a lot, especially of the latter and so that leads to the obvious decrease in blog entries.  The truth of the...

Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand  was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award and follows on from his earlier first novel Incendiary, which I have not read but will.  Incendiary was published just at the time of the July 07 attacks in London and is...

Here’s how to do it:   Write that novel that is lurking around in your head, somewhere.  Me?  I haven’t got the time.  I don’t even have time to blog book reviews that I have already written.  Shame.