I found out an interesting fact while I’ve been researching The Eastside Hustler, the second book in my Alex Cohen series… In between the world wars, there was a Detroit gang who were part of the St Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago 1929 and they were called the Purple Gang. As violent a bunch of …
The results of the shortlist for the annual literary bad sex awards have been announced. And this year, it is full of men. The awards have been running for 25 years and there have only been three female winners. James Frey and Haruki Murakami get special mention and we don’t even know if they’ve won. …
I thought I’d add to the debate about whether books or films are in themselves better during the recent Powder blog tour and here is my contribution. There was a point in my life when I tracked down the books upon which my favourite films were based – and many of them were by obscure …
The biggest book news this week was that an Irish woman won the Man Booker prize and I can honestly say the story left me cold – not because I don’t care that a woman has won the accolade for the first time in quite a few years or that I don’t care that an …
There was a lovely piece in The Guardian this week about some new arrivals in the Oxford English Dictionary that have come from the world of film. The compilers have added words like Tarantinoesque and Kubrikian to Visual Effects and Diagetic. I must admit I though all these terms had been around so long they …
This is one of those stories which would only reply in the UK, India and apparently China. People’s creativity can be enhanced by drinking a cup of tea. Now let’s be clear: I might be British (okay, I am) but I do not like tea. I am a coffee drinker and completely happy in that …
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The Guardian newspaper had a wonderful roundup of traditionally published crime novels, so I thought I’d share it with you. Buy from any source you think is best; not for me to say. Fill your boots (but not if you’re only after a freebie).
Far be it from me to write anything about Brexit but a major publisher has pointed out that post-Brexit (I shudder just typing the phrase), the UK will no longer have the same rights over the English language as it did before the UK voted to stab itself in the eye repeatedly until dead. How …
I don’t want to spread fear and panic across the Internet – and I surely won’t – but hot news from the UK’s Arts Council is that sales of literary fiction are down. The reason? People prefer Candy Crush. Seriously. Literary fiction is difficult and costly and people prefer to play cheaper games on their …
There has been a series of online discussions about the qualities or otherwise of female writers, centered around a totemic Jane Austen. More specifically, there have been a number of men who have complained about the literary ability of female writers and this has created a social media storm. Now, I am male and I …
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