I’d like to ask you to join me for the oddest reading event of my career. Oxfam are holding a twenty-four hour readathon for their Bookfest. It’s on Monday, the 5th of July, and I’m reading at 10:30pm. Drinks before are recommended. It’s at the Oxfam flagship bookstore at 91 Marylebone High Street W1D 4RB.
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Monday night just got a whole lot cooler
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Weekend with a killer
I spent the bank holiday weekend with a Texan killer from the fifties. After watching the intensely claustrophobic trailers for Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me I ran to Foyles to read the book.
The novel slips inside the head of small town Sherriff and calculating killer, Lou Ford. […] -
Interview
Check out this interview with Spinetingler Magazine about being bookless.
Thanks to www.spinetinglermag.com for thinking of me. -
Amazing book covers
Creative Review Blog write up John Squire’s Penguin Decades covers read the full post here
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Short in Print
This month, Decongested Tales will be publishing Things I am ashamed of #1, a short story I read at Foyles earlier this year, in their December issue.
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Short story performance this Friday
I’m doing another short story reading at The Gallery Space in Foyles this Friday. I’m hoping this time the delivery will live up to the writing.
I’ve chosen to read a much shorter story than before - under seven hundred words. It’s called Things I’m ashamed of #1.
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Dress for Chauvinism
The Bank of England are teaching their female staff how to walk the thin line between dressing for success and not looking like a sex worker. A recent memo, posted on Jezebel tells female employees, “always wear a heel of some sort — maximum 2 inches; always wear some sort of makeup — even if […]
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We are all that dog
I was heading home a few days ago, I’d just gotten off the bus and had turned my headphones up as loud as they would go for the walk home. I was in a great mood and the song felt amazing. As I reached the corner, I saw Boots was open and knew I needed […]
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Friday Night
I’m going to be reading a short story of mine this Friday at The Gallery Space in Foyles Bookshop as part of the monthly event, Tales of the Decongested.
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The Lone Krishna
When I first moved to London the rhythmic singing and clanging of bells that could only be the Hare Krishnas always made me smile. Like an establishing shot in any film about a major city, the presence of the Krishnas and their little Madonna style headsets were a sign the place was alive.
Recently, all is […]