We think of ourselves as land animals, but in truth the air is our element. We live on the seabed of a gaseous ocean, and just because the air we inhabit is invisible to us that does not mean it does not exist. What is invisible to us is so often what is most important. …
I love this time of year. Mistletoe and wine (and port, of course, and brandy and mulled ale if you can), and trying to grab an hour to read beside the Christmas tree. I enjoy the retrospectives that appear in the press, the closing year’s events considered at a pace there’s no time for during …
Regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t talked a great deal about my novels here. There isn’t a lot, if I’m honest, that I feel it’s helpful to say about them beyond what you’ll find between the front and back covers of the books themselves. I can’t add to or qualify the prose, and …
Hello folks, and apologies for the recent radio silence. I go through phases where I feel terribly old fashioned about the Internet and want to do all things with pen and paper, and perhaps a graphite stick or two. I’m writing my third novel at the moment and it’s all being done in scruffy notebooks …
I’ve been asked more times than I can count to describe what genre I write in. Sometimes I have a go at answering. ‘I don’t know,’ I say, ‘my book’s about a girl who’s turning into glass.’ The truth is, though, as I discovered on Friday when I finished writing my new novel, that it’s …