'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 ) My newest novel, Birdkill is set in the wooded grounds of The Hamilton Institute, an enterprise dedicate...

Yo ho ho! It's that time of year again. Deranged writer of childrens' books Rachel Hamilton and I shared a table at last year...

(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...

Brownian Motion on a Sphere. The generator of ths process is ½ times the Laplace-Beltrami-Operator (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Bring y...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I guess I was asking for it, posting this . Cairo's not happening, the team at The Townhouse have postpo...

They've been and gone and done it. Last night in a glittering gala event with thousands of sizzling gypsies, the LitFest gang annou...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Back in the days when men were men, women were interested and dinosaurs roamed the earth, the Dubai Worl...

Back in 2007, a post on uber-blog Boing Boing alerted me to a new website from Harper Collins Publishers called 'Authonomy'. The...

(Photo credit: IsaacMao ) Saturday the 8th March will see me once again pretending to be an author at the LitFest. As well as my usual ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Last night marked the final day of the Sharjah International Book Fair 2013 and the pre-launch of Bilal Tanw...

Can you formalise literature? At least, the process of promoting and promulgating it? We'll see, with the new Decree No. 8 of 2013 f...

Kamal Abdel Malek and I are sharing the stage at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in a session entitled 'Tales of Two Cit...