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Whatever the title of this book makes you think of, you’re likely to be wrong. This book is incredible and original.

There is something that always bothered me about Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of Crete and also of his own ‘great trudge’ across Europe…

I’ve been a little quiet preparing a new series for you. After the recent demise of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, a man who…

Spenser: A Pulp Hero?

Why do people use pen names? More specifically: why do crime writers have so many each? I know the answer, and it’s complicated.

I can tell you what my definition of pulp crime is. It might work for you. You might object to bits of my definition, and I might object…

I’m trying something new this year. Writing a novel in 8 weeks. True, it’s a short novel, only two hundred pages. That’s around 60,000…

It’s hard being a musician in a band. It might be harder to go solo, but not in all ways. The problem with bands is that the good ones…

For American listeners, perhaps Thomas McGuane requires no introduction. A successful novelist and screenwriter, he is also a regular…

I started writing these diaries on LinkedIn as an antidote to all the self-obsessed selling that was happening on that platform. Look at…

I’ve written before about deleting Facebook and WhatsApp. They are two of my most popular articles here on Medium. But today, as WhatsApp…

Roland Gift has been called many things, and one of those things is “the first black punk in Hull”. He was in a Hull ska band called…

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