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Passing Time In The Loo
I write on a slow Sunday about our downstairs lavatorial. This is on its last legs and we are planning to turn it into a fully equipped…
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Book: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Whatever the title of this book makes you think of, you’re likely to be wrong. This book is incredible and original.
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WW2 Crete: Abducting a General
There is something that always bothered me about Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of Crete and also of his own ‘great trudge’ across Europe…
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Crime Classics: The Moors and The Wests
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…
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Spenser: A Pulp Hero?
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Pen Name Hell
Why do people use pen names? More specifically: why do crime writers have so many each? I know the answer, and it’s complicated.
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What Is Pulp Crime?
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…
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Welcome
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…
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Life After The Beautiful South
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…
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Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
For American listeners, perhaps Thomas McGuane requires no introduction. A successful novelist and screenwriter, he is also a regular…
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British Lockdown Diaries 2020
I started writing these diaries on LinkedIn as an antidote to all the self-obsessed selling that was happening on that platform. Look at…
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Private Communications: WhatsApp
I’ve written before about deleting Facebook and WhatsApp. They are two of my most popular articles here on Medium. But today, as WhatsApp…