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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 [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

I’d never heard of Dan Simmons before, until I found one of his books in my local second hand bookshop. It was spine out on the shelf, in the Fantasy/Horror/Science fiction section. How these [...]

Looking at the cover and title of Duncan Ralston’s Gristle & Bone, a collection of short and novella-length stories from Booktrope’s new Forsaken imprint, you’d be correct in assuming that [...]

Well, hello there, and welcome to my brand new, shiny, sparkly website. Don’t be shy, come on in. Please remember to wipe your feet on the way in though, don’t want you traipsing mud through the [...]