The bad news is I’m confined to barracks with tarsal fractures after a two-ton Audi ran over my foot as I was walking home from work on Thursday. The car swung in from left-field as I was crossing a side … Read More
Until recently I thought ‘uplit’ meant ambient lighting, like in the picture, but last week, at a workshop called ‘The Kindness Effect’ I learnt it’s actually a genre, or a literary trend – one that has empathy at its core. … Read More
Writing a novel is a bit like having a child. You watch it develop from an embryonic thing into something beautiful (hopefully). You nurture it, you correct it, you watch with wonder as day by day it surprises you. You … Read More
I am sitting in a former tram depot and I #amwriting I sit near the balcony which gives me a view of the bar below. This place is designed a bit like a Victorian music hall, in which case I … Read More