I've gone and done the book thing again. I finished my fifth serious novel, Birdkill , in February 2016 and that was lovely. I mes...

English: Erik Pevernagie, painting. Representing the opposition with lightness of being (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm not writin...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There have been a number of recent reports celebrating the ‘undeath’ of print, with a reported decline in t...

" A Decent Bomber was an excellent story." "I read and reviewed prior novels by Alexander McNabb ( Shemlan, Olives, an...

I'm feeling slightly shell-shocked this morning. The weekend's whirl is over and I realised, probably massively belatedly but th...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm doing a third panel at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature , "Future Shock: Writin...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) 'You write very well, you know. You just need to get out of the Middle East. It's doing y...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Running in a new car on the Dubai-Al Ain highway is not something I'd recommend, people. It's dead...

I love school visits. They're sort of part of being at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature . You don't have to do them b...

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'What started you writing?' It's a question I've come to dread. I want to print out the answer on a sheet of A4 and have...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "There is now no reasonable excuse for refusing to face the fact that nothing but a eugenics reli...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The second panel session wot I am doing at the wonderful Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is tit...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) My newest novel, Birdkill is set in the wooded grounds of The Hamilton Institute, an enterprise dedicate...

I suppose there is, one way and another, quite a bit of drinking in my books. Space , my silly first effort at writing, was originally p...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've posted in times past on how to write a book . I've posted about how to edit a book - an...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I clearly want to tell the world about A Decent Bomber . This is perfectly natural, it's my latest...

I not only have this book, but have cooked from it. I hope you're duly impressed... The LitFest unveiled its 2016 line-up of auth...