I’m back in Japan after the whirlwind that was the First Time Solo book tour. I’ll post properly about that when my head stops spinning but in the meantime here’s a nice piece from the Edinburgh Reporter on the Edinburgh launch. [Correction – I never said I was influenced by Alan Moore. I’ve never readContinue reading “First Press”
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Staring Down the Barrel of a Rewrite
The course of a novel never did run smooth. I first had the idea for this novel while I was at university (oh so many years ago). I originally envisaged it as being a thinly-veiled fictional reportage of my grandfather’s World War 2 experiences. Then I realised that wasn’t enough to sustain a book andContinue reading “Staring Down the Barrel of a Rewrite”