When asked what the best early training for a writer was, Hemingway claimed that it was “an unhappy childhood”. Check. I have that one...

The film director Richard Donner died earlier this month. Beyond the obvious loss, there is no tragedy here: he was 91 and had led a full...

I love to be able to lose myself in a piece of music. I like tracks that have a headlong motion – that make you feel that you are falling...

Music is very important to me. I don’t play an instrument and I can’t carry a tune, but I have an innate love of music. I play it all the...

This three-part serial is an odd beast that posits an interesting premise: what would happen if a truly Left-wing Labour government had...

There are many reasons that I wanted to be a writer. Many formative experiences, both positive and negative, that put me on this creative...