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Jim Sorrel is an engineer. He works for Lescure, an elite rally team, and more specifically for Teddy Moon, son of legendary racing driver Aled Moon and a champion in his own right. Sorrel s life is forced off the track when Teddy and his co-driver Eric suffer a cataclysmic accident but who is to [ ]
There are books that happen along at just the right moment. I ll never forget reading Maria Gainza s Optic Nerve a paean to art in the form of an experimental, autofictional novel in the early spring of 2022. The war in Ukraine had just begun, and Gainza s book was the only thing that came [ ]
Marion Scott was born in Croydon on New Year’s Day 1935. Her father, Douglas Scott, had grown up in Glasgow and after working there for some years as a shipping clerk he moved south, founding his own business importing coffee and other products. Marion’s mother Evelyn was the sister of a London business colleague. The [ ]
So while this was happening in Edinburgh this was being awarded in London! As I was already scheduled to chair M. John Harrison s event at Blackwell s I was unfortunately unable to attend the CWA dinner and Dagger award ceremony in London last Thursday, July 2nd. I had made a video to be played in case [ ]
The Fall came into being in 1976, the year of the long, hot summer, fifty summers ago today. I was ten years old. A friend s older brother was heavily into them, alongside Joy Division. There s no way I d have got The Fall back then. It s only now that I can hear them for real, the [ ]
‘The world’s over. But that doesn’t matter, because another one will be along soon enough.’ (M. John Harrison, The End of Everything.) In M. John Harrison’s 2017 short story ‘The Crisis’, the City of London has become what we might recognize from some of his earlier fictions as an event site. ‘No one was sure [ ]
David Hockney changed the world just by looking at it, writes Jonathan Jones in today s Guardian. His art was a feast of unabashed visual pleasure, one long orgy of the gaze, the delighted lifelong epiphany of someone who cherished flowers in a vase and freeways in the sun and thought endlessly about new ways of [ ]
Seriously, if I read a book I like better this year, I will be dumbfounded. An unnamed what shall we call her? Curator? Historian? Artist? is commissioned to design an exhibition in an historic building, a palace that was once home to a king, or a number of kings, none of whom are [ ]
In Liadan Ni Chuinn s story Mary , the third part of their debut collection Every One Still Here, the narrator loses her job and enrols in a local creative writing class. In her regular bus journey to and from the class, she notices a child, always on the bus and always alone. Everyone who rides the [ ]
I am thrilled to announce that A Granite Silence has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger as part of the prestigious annual CWA Dagger Awards. As someone who has followed the Daggers for many years, it is a real honour to see A Granite Silence recognised in this way, becoming its own [ ]
