I have published a book. To be more accurate, I have written a book, rewritten it, rewritten it again, revised and corrected it a dozen...

Basically, Special Boy gets to do all the things you don't, because you're not special.

There's a lot to be said for the ease of living in the streaming age, but is the instant availability of so much film, music, TV and...

'How Soon Is Now?' is a complex book built on a simple idea: What if you could go back to be yourself at any point in your life? This...

Music played a huge part in the writing of 'How Soon Is Now?' (and the other novel-and-a-quarter written since its completion). I always...

Just a few days to go until pre-orders open for 'How Soon Is Now?', and it's suddenly all becoming very real. The website is finally...

I'm sure I saw it as a Private Eye cartoon, but I've also seen it as a quote attributed to the late Peter Cook: Two men at a party. One...

MOST of what’s gone wrong in British social and political life can be summed up with a fairly simple example using Jameela Jamil, a...

There’s something indefinably magical about the intricate, chiming sounds of a finger-picked acoustic guitar. It’s something I’d always...

From the archives comes this 1998 interview with singer, songwriter, Throwing Muses founder and. latterly, author Kristin Hersh, as she...

(Interview originally conducted in 1998, to coincide with the release by Titan Books of ‘Warped Factors’) WITH ‘Warped Factors’, ‘Star...

Mark Hanson’s ‘The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking’ is one of the guitar tuition books I’ve returned to most often over the years. If...

This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It’s a diversion, for me and anyone who happens to pass by. It’ll play...

It’s 1997, the tail-end of Britpop, and one of the more idiosyncratic – but enduring – talents to emerge during the first British beat...

Back in the 90s, when I was young and slim, vintage suits were my thing. In those pre-eBay days, vintage shops and second-hand stores...

Trudy came to us earlier this year from Romania, via https://www.silverfoxdogrescue.com. She’d been on the street, then rounded up by the...

Our time with Lola was brief but sweet. She’d been a breeding cat, passed about from owner to owner, before she came to us. A typical...

In 2008, we visited Mrs C’s home town in the southern USA – an ideal spot for outings in Alabama, Georgia and Florida. I’ve always had a...

Rosie cat, safe at home. For now. Meet Rosie. We adopted her from the SPCA in 2016. She’d been living rough in a coal cellar with some...

Last year Mrs C and I visited Reykjavik for the first time – tying our long-awaited (17 years!) honeymoon into a trip to see the...