Inspiration

My novel Push Process is about a postgraduate student in Venice who abandons his historical research in the archive to take photographs …

A thing I never know, when I’m starting out to tell a story about a chap I’ve told a story about before, …

The film channel here in Japan likes to show things in sequence, so it was that I spent a recent winter’s evening …

It seems every time I look at the ever-flowing social media stream, I am alerted to the death of somebody in the …

A booklover departs As if life wasn’t feeling precarious enough at present, one day all your prized possessions will become future charity shop …

Sometimes you do not really notice things you consistently say out loud until a friend or someone points it out to you. …

Sitting on a boat basking in the heat, the smell of diesel oil fused with the sun. The stillness of the water, …

Hard work is on the agenda. Hardworking is good. Hardworking families are apparently the best kind. Aspiration is the word of the …

We meet in town, in one of the pubs. Way back when, before gastropubs and chains, before pubs got remodelled to look …

I found it interesting when Annie Lennox said recently that she finds it increasingly difficult to write when she is content and …