Welcome
Welcome, finally, to my website. Here's info on me, my books and other writings, what I'm up to, and the inevitable deeply self-absorbed blog. Visit, graze, leave a comment, then go out into the sunshine and read.
Archives
- 2008.11.18: BookTrust Teenage Prize.......
- 2008.11.16: Independent 50 Books For Winter
- 2008.11.13: Back and Busy and Book Two
- 2008.11.07: Borders television
- 2008.11.06: Carnegie Longlist
- 2008.11.04: Amazon.com Books of the Year
- 2008.10.30: Before I go...
- 2008.10.25: Guardian competition for young writers
- 2008.10.24: I've been Wikied (and a new play to see)
- 2008.10.20: Knife paperback in stores now(ish)! And events, too...
- 2008.10.18: An all northern diary entry....
- 2008.10.16: We'd rule the world if we could decide what to wear
- 2008.10.13: Sprechen Sie iPod EP, bitte?
- 2008.10.09: I'll admit it, I've never heard of him
- 2008.10.06: Half-Marathon post mortem
- 2008.10.03: I'm too busy never walking alone
- 2008.09.28: And on...
- 2008.09.25: How do you write a subject line that says, "I won!" without looking like a prat?
- 2008.09.21: The Power iPod of One........
- 2008.09.16: Ivanov
- 2008.09.14: David Foster Wallace
- 2008.09.12: Spam
- 2008.09.09: Knife of Never Letting Go in America
- 2008.09.06: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
- 2008.09.04: Impending sorority..............
- 2008.09.01: BookTrust Teenage Prize Shortlist (and I'm on it!)
- 2008.08.28: Run For Shelter
- 2008.08.24: They give us 2,008 drummers, we give them Leona Lewis
- 2008.08.20: A little tribute to the wee bodger
- 2008.08.18: Reviews, races, casualty and my red little eye
- 2008.08.15: The Olympic iPod of Long (new WR)
- 2008.08.11: Trumpets fanfare, tri-coloured smoke rises, and fighter planes fly over in formation
- 2008.08.08: Me on Irish television (re-redux)
- 2008.08.07: The iPod of short
- 2008.08.03: Worst Show Ever
- 2008.08.01: Me on telly via tellyphone (and more awards, too)
- 2008.07.30: The Buzz
- 2008.07.28: A note to Irish viewers!
- 2008.07.19: Worst Theatrical Idea of the Millenneum
- 2008.07.15: Book News (and music, too)
- 2008.07.11: iPod of Drag
- 2008.07.07: Wimbledon
- 2008.07.06: Culture! Culture, I tell you!
- 2008.07.04: Independence Day and Turkeys
- 2008.06.30: Hitting While Sleeping
- 2008.06.25: iPod of Countdown
- 2008.06.21: More reviews
- 2008.06.17: Frank Cottrell-Boyce...
- 2008.06.13: A Coincidence of Mining
- 2008.06.10: I hadn't gone anywhere...
- 2008.05.28: The Hay-on-Wye mudpack experience
- 2008.05.23: I've been longlisted!
- 2008.05.22: Run for Shelter
- 2008.05.19: iPod of the Way
- 2008.05.14: Political amnesia (and iTunes)
- 2008.05.11: Brighton
- 2008.05.09: Saved by the Glitch (and more iTunes)
- 2008.05.06: The Month of Obstacle Thinking
- 2008.05.01: I'm on iTunes
- 2008.04.28: Early Reviews
- 2008.04.25: Countdown
- 2008.04.20: The iPod of Seven
- 2008.04.15: Tardiness
- 2008.04.09: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (and The 39 Steps)
- 2008.04.08: Back to work
- 2008.04.04: More tooting
- 2008.03.30: Paternity/Fraternity (and the iPod of Loo)
- 2008.03.25: New! New! New!
- 2008.03.25: Never So Dull
- 2008.03.23: Easter snow
- 2008.03.19: The iPod of Ka
- 2008.03.14: Brighton Festival appearance (and the Salvation Army)
- 2008.03.12: The Diving Bell and The History Butterflies
- 2008.03.08: Limping
- 2008.03.04: The Man Who Had All The Luck (but was unable to pronounce "Amos")
- 2008.03.03: The long-awaited iPod of Don't (which does not, and never will, include "Don't Worry, Be Happy")
- 2008.02.28: Earthquake
- 2008.02.27: Bookkeeping
- 2008.02.23: Second drafts
- 2008.02.18: Claridge's and the chiastic EP
- 2008.02.15: Great movie, Hideous trailer
- 2008.02.13: Averaging out to normal speech
- 2008.02.11: The Secret Power Behind British Film
- 2008.02.10: The iPod of Do
- 2008.02.07: Richard and Judy and Harold
- 2008.02.03: Buy! Buy! Buy!
- 2008.01.28: Hard copy
- 2008.01.27: Othello
- 2008.01.23: No Country For Old Men...
- 2008.01.22: Does a bear market shit in the woods?
- 2008.01.20: Run
- 2008.01.17: The Vertical Hours and hours and hours...
- 2008.01.14: iPods of Apocalypse and Death
- 2008.01.13: All together now, "I am what I AMMMM....
- 2008.01.10: Second drafts
- 2008.01.06: Yes, yes, it's New Year, I know, can't we all just back to work already?
- 2007.12.28: DUM!!! Dum-dum-dum-dum-DUM!!!
- 2007.12.18: Doubtful American Accents....
- 2007.12.14: Watch as the crowd turns against Daisy and Lily...
- 2007.12.12: Women of Troy
- 2007.12.10: Crowded House
- 2007.12.05: Run
- 2007.12.01: Novellas and Gaelic...........
- 2007.11.28: Galleys
- 2007.11.24: Orff, Shakespeare, Da Vinci and a naked old man
- 2007.11.19: The Cultural Week To Come...
- 2007.11.13: War Horse
- 2007.11.10: Driving
- 2007.10.30: My iPod and U
- 2007.10.22: Up North
- 2007.10.17: Anne Enright
- 2007.10.14: I would've said £9, I think, if I hadn't gone deluxe
- 2007.10.05: Isles of Scilly
- 2007.10.01: Boris Johnson As A Multi-Tentacled Demon
- 2007.09.27: My Concert DVD
- 2007.09.22: "Hooray For Lesbians"
- 2007.09.19: First Real Entry
