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I’ve been thinking about this for a little while now. No, not that ebooks are damaging society (Oh the horror, I must throw my Kindle away right now and transcribe my novels onto parchment using [...]

I know, I know. This is a post about books that made me cry. It could get embarrassing. I apologise now. I don’t know about you but there are times when I think that I cry more easily over my [...]

Birmingham: grim place. Full of immigrants and idiots. Looks toxic at the best of times, let alone in the winter. The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands, loosely encompassing the [...]

I found Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted in a second hand book shop. Of course I’d heard of him long before THAT, ever since watching Edward Norton fight his id in David Fincher’s Fight Club. And I had [...]

Scott and Amy Carter did it again, hosting another fun day at Southcart Bookshop with food, drink and plenty of authors reading tales of love and romance gone wrong.These events are a regular [...]

Everyone loves the idea of something for nothing, right? But everyone is suspicious, too. I mean, come on, if it’s free there’s got to be a catch. Because no one gives away stuff. [...]

Written in 1949, The Screaming Mimi is probably Fredric Brown’s most popular book. It is certainly one of my favourites. I first discovered it in my early twenties, back in the days when I used [...]

In an age when bookshops are on the decline, having been swept up by the combined might of supermarket juggernauts, WHSmith and book superstores, (no, I’m not using the Amazon word, because [...]

The Rats – James Herbert Quite possibly the first adult horror book I read. I can still remember standing in the shop, and seeing the paperback on display, alongside Night of the Crabs, by [...]

When I started writing Joe Coffin Season One I felt I needed an image in my head of what Coffin looked like. I knew he was going to be big, and probably not good looking (I’m being kind there). [...]