It’s weird. I’ve averaged writing more or less a book a year for the last eight years: My first published novel, Taking Comfort, came out in 2006. Then Gentle Axe was published in 2007. Vengeful Longing came out in 2008. Then I had a year without a a book coming out. That was 2009. Then …
Russian travel company, ULKO Tours, has published a blog post about St Petersburg’s literary connections. You know the sort of thing, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky… and me! I was very flattered to find myself included in such company – even more so to be mentioned in the same paragraph as J.M. Coetzee!
I’ve reached the penultimate chapter in my twitterisation of my novel A Gentle Axe. I don’t seriously think anyone will have followed the twitterisation all the way through. As a communication channel, twitter simply doesn’t suit the transmission of an extended text. Not only is the story broken up, but if you come into it …
It’s always been a fantasy of mine to spot someone on the tube reading one of my books. I don’t think I would ever actually say anything to them. It might be just a little too odd. (Though possibly I might have to say something, just to explain why I was looking at them like …
The girl reading The Gentle Axe on the yellow line Read More »
There’s a wonderful French bookseller called Gerard Collard of La Griffe Noire bookshop, who records video reviews of books. Great idea, especially when you’re such an assured and engaging performer as Monsieur Collard. Below is his review of the French edition of A Gentle Axe, which bears the French title of L’Ame Detournee. Sorry no …