Roddy Doyle – Iain Maloney

First Press

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”

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”