What’s in a Name?
Coincidences by Ian Thomson There was a boy in my form at school with the same name as me. Exactly the same name. There was no intrusive ‘p’…
A running buffet of the thoughts and ideas that crowd into a writer’s life.
Coincidences by Ian Thomson There was a boy in my form at school with the same name as me. Exactly the same name. There was no intrusive ‘p’…
Michael Reidy’s The Rock Pool is suffused with nostalgia, the aching remembrance of rose-tinted, irrecoverable time, the bitter-sweet longing for a return home. ‘Home’ in the novel is…
PART ONE I enjoyed the first instalment of the 2007 version of Oliver Twist this evening. BBC Drama at its best. Sumptuous production values. A brilliant adaptation: the…
Ten years or so ago, Fiskerton made his first appearance on Facebook. Now,it is a truth universally acknowledged that a gentleman, living alone, must be in need of a valet-cum-butler, so I invented one for myself.
All is True Bill Bryson pointed out that we know very little about Shakespeare’s life and if you look back through the excellent work of Peter Ackroyd, Ivor…
I like short stories. It’s a mystery to me why some publishers have such a downer on them. It seems that they are not happy to countenance publishing…
A good day at the keyboard. My fourth novel, A Dish of Apricots, has definitely moved into the endgame. Here’s an idea of what’s to come: Philip Williams…
The Breakfast Club [Netflix] ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Teen flics are not usually my bag (apart from the inimitable Sex Education). I really thought this was going to be an exception.…
Humphrey sat on the garden swing with the green pistol in one hand and the red pistol in the other. A large King Edward potato lay in his…
Les Quatre Cents Coups (dir. Truffaut) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This superb coming of age movie has long been a firm favourite of mine and I enjoyed rediscovering it on Prime.…