January 1st 1909. Ten-Footed Bear. Tarak told us Wednesday evening that the tenfooted bear lives mostly in the water like a seal. Looks like a polar bear all but the ten legs. When he walks on ice the five feet of each side track after each other so the bear makes a double track like …
Der Mann, der den Regen träumt is published in Germany in January and script5, the book’s publishers, have put together this neat little trailer. I’ve also done a Q&A with London’s Litro Magazine, who I used to blog a bit for. You can read it online here. Expect more from me tomorrow, when I …
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Last Friday I finished work on the penultimate draft of my new novel. It was cause for relief as well as whiskey, since I’ve had my head down for the last several months, pushing myself to see it through to completion. Most of the time I can both write and keep a loose hold on …
It’s usual at this time of year, when the rain hammers down and stirs the fields to deep muck, for thousands of festival-goers to descend on a certain spot in the West Country. It’s not happening this year, much to the despair of Wellington boot retailers, and its absence leaves, in my view, something missing …
Enough now. There you have it. There are one hundred stories from almost forty years of my life contained in my collected stories. They contain half the damning truths I suspected at midnight, and half of the saving truths I re-found next noon. If anything is taught here, it is simply the charting of the …