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Liverpudlians! Look at this mad thing happening on Monday, right on your doorstep! How the hell will it work? Only one way to find out!

Hey, we’re playing at the Winter Words festival in Pitlochry next Saturday 17th Feb. Come and rock!

Here’s my latest book reviews in The Big Issue magazine, two belting crime novels, William Boyle’s Gravesend (No Exit) and Eva Dolan’s This Is How It Ends (Raven).

Here’s a thing I recorded for the Royal Literary Fund about the best advice I ever received. They meant in terms of my writing, so not gambling tips or cookery lessons or whatever. Enjoy!

Just in case you’re interested, here are my favourite novels of 2017. I reviewed almost all of these in The Big Issue magazine, but their website has glitched and lost most of them, which is kind of annoying. Anyway, I … Continue reading →

Here’s a thing I wrote about the role of place in my fiction. As you were. Dx

So all SIX members of Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers are appearing at Waterstones in Liverpool tomorrow night, talking about books, music and what we’ve got each other in our Secret Santa. Come!

Hey hey! Here’s the proof cover of my next novel, FAULT LINES, out in May next year with the terrific Orenda Books. It’s a whodunit-speculative-psychological-thriller-disaster-movie with volcanoes, islands and earthquakes. Right up your street, basically. Dx

Here I am on brand new Radio Scotland show Winter Weekend, alongside Edi Stark, Jenny Colgan and Kate Young, talking about all things book inspired. 90 minutes of top fun!

Here is some prime nonsense. Good fun to film.