OpinionUgh, Wetherspoons3 CommentsIt tells you almost everything you need to know about Wetherspoons that it was named out of spite – a...
BooksOpinionMy favourite books of 2020no commentI managed to read a decent pile of books in 2020, despite being busy finishing one of my own and...
BooksThe Magnificent Sons: paperback cover revealno commentI’m never hugely comfortable with the salesman side of being an author. Not because I don’t believe in my books,...
ContentGoing nolo: spirits1 commentI would never claim that I'm never going to drink again, but I know I was right to stop when...
ContentGoing nolo: beers and cocktails4 CommentsThe hardest drink to give up is Nervous Wine, or Nervous Pint – there's not a type of booze I...
ContentForget cathedralsno commentI’m lucky to have not been so personally, physically oppressed enough by churches that I can’t still find them beautiful. I...
BooksTwo! More! Novels!no commentI'm very excited and delighted and generally in a good mood to let you know that there will be two...
OpinionMurderers are not celebritiesno commentAn infamous Yorkshireman died recently. Friday the 13th, how fitting. You know his name, so I don’t need to say...
ContentConvenience store hero1 commentWhen I was 17, I got a job in a supermarket. I often say it was my favourite or second-favourite...
BooksThe music behind The Magnificent Sons1 commentAs you may know, my second novel THE MAGNIFICENT SONS came out on hardback on 6 August. It tells the...