I made the grown-ups cry
My final author engagement of 2022 was an interview with the ‘Look Mum, No Hands!’ podcast. I didn’t intend to make Sarah Sharman and Daniel
December 31, 2022
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My final author engagement of 2022 was an interview with the ‘Look Mum, No Hands!’ podcast. I didn’t intend to make Sarah Sharman and Daniel
How do you see the future of the human race? I had to give that question some serious thought When Nathan Price (aka @GadgetNate) asked
I’m just back from the trip of a lifetime to the far-flung Scottish Island of Jura, travelling in the footsteps of my inspiration, the great
‘David Bowie showed me there was a world outside Southport… ‘ An interview I came across this weekend transported me back to my teenage years.
A few weeks ago I was amazed to hear from my school English teacher, who I had not seen since I was eighteen, and often
It was great fun to record my first author audio interview with friendly local podcasters Sarah Sharman and Daniel Confino a few weeks ago. Homespun
You may have seen this David Bowie interview before. I’ve been drawn to it again and again. It’s been on my mind this week as 10th January
This little building inspired the location for one of the scenes in Rockstar Ending. In real life, it houses a café in my local park
January 2020 marks seventy years since George Orwell – whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair – died. I took this picture last summer, at
Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in London on June 8th, 1949. 2019 is the seventieth anniversary of its appearance, and members of the Orwell Society were
“So captivating you could have heard a pin drop.”
Professor Tim Crook, organiser of the George Orwell Studies Conference, London, 2018
Having left a top job in Vodafone at the end of February, after six highly productive and enjoyable years, the timing was perfect for me
Over a year on from that first blog about my forthcoming six-month sabbatical, it all glided to a graceful conclusion earlier this week with a
My favourite virtue, courage, has been a theme running through many aspects of my life this year. As 2016 draws to close this post is
Sixty years ago, Albert Pierrepoint was smuggled into Germany to hang war criminals. Later, he executed Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. He
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