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My brother Steven and I are similar in appearance but utterly opposite in personalities. He’s married with two daughters and lives in the Kent countryside with dogs and chickens and fields full of foxes and deer. I suppose he’d describe himself as a liberal conservative. His wife is an addiction therapist. The family loves cars, [...] This may be of some use to anyone in publishing PR who wants to make sure that book reviewers read their latest promoted books. Seeing the problem from both sides adds a bit of perspective to the problem. Reviewers are freelance. Most have written books themselves and are therefore very interested in originality of plots. We [...] Anyone who thinks London no longer has its Gothic atmosphere should check out my pal Joel Meadows’ photographs; he shows that the city can still be as moodily baroque as it ever was. He’s been creeping about in all the graveyards and alleyways of the city with his camera to create a book called ‘Spooked’. [...] My old friend Kim Newman, whose own excellent Sherlock Holmes book series far exceeds the quality of the current TV reinvention, has pointed out that TV doesn’t need to purchase new ideas so long as they can get away with stealing work from writers, in the same way that TV reality shows don’t need actors [...] There’s nothing to beat the musty smell of an old archive filled with dead authors – of course you’ll be the only one there these days as the art of investigating the past is dying out – or is it? A site for works in the public domain has been recommended by my friend Michele [...] Has anyone seen the huge posters for ‘Hell Train’ on the tube? If so, can they photograph one? For all my tubular travels I seem to keep missing them! The book is available on Kindle for under a fiver – I’m just saying is all. ‘The Day Off’ (see previous post) occupies a key position in the history of British comedy. Written by Galton & Simpson, who changed the face of TV humour by writing about the working class poor with more realism and pathos than anyone had previously attempted, they created the script at a high point in their [...] Last night I went to the National Film Theatre to see Ray Galton and Alan Simpson’s missing Tony Hancock film ‘The Day Off’ performed live on stage, and found myself – as an incredible piece of luck would have it – sitting next to my comedy heroes, now in their eighties, who were interviewed after [...] Having finally succumbed to a Kindle, and reluctantly agreeing that it’s better (if uglier) than the sleek steel Sony eReader, there remains one massive obstacle for me to overcome. It has no riffle-factor. If you read long novels which are quite complicated (try David Mitchell’s ‘The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet’) it’s impossible to [...] When I was a kid I felt close to the US mindset because I read so many US books and magazines. When I went there to live, people thought I was American because I quickly adopted the language tropes if not the accent. They probably just thought I went to an old university. I was always [...] |
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