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HURRAY! I Now Own My Books Again!
Why I took the rights back to my most recent seven books, and how you can get hold of them, without giving money to my (now ex) publishers
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Where I Am, Where I've Been And Where I Am Going (Plus Some Other Destinations)
I did wonder about making this a paid-only post, perhaps because it’s quite a personal one, but in the end I decided I wanted everyone to be able to read it. If you decide to upgrade to paid, though, you can read my full paywalled archive of well over
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RR Hood (Reprise)
A fairy tale for 21st Century adults
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Protected By The Ejaculation Of Serpents
35 years - or is it 36 - of watching The Wicker Man
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Cat Horoscopes
Aries This week you will see a ghost but nobody will notice when you look startled about it since you look like that a lot of the time already anyway. Later, a serendipitous series of events - mostly vole-related - will take you on a long journey (24 yards) but
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Old Litkinov
Fiction
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The Real Stories Behind The Lives Of Some Scarecrows I Have Photographed On Walks
JOHN I first met John on a brutally crowded train from Birmingham to Devon. It turned out our reserved seats had been commandeered by two members of the same shrill family from Tamworth and that got us to talking. He could not have looked more out of place, standing there
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A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's 'Well-Loved Tales', 1964-74
This one is too long to fit on an email (due to the illustrations) so you’ll need to click through to the webpage to read the entire thing… Subscribe now One of the many ways that the internet is cruel and annoying in a “pissing down your back then
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The Punishment Of Water
This is a piece I wrote in late August, 2020, which the majority of you won’t have seen. It popped into my mind because, after the huge amount of rainfall here in Devon over the last few days, I was thinking about the astonishing weight of water and how
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100 Things About Moving House You Must Know Before You Die
Not really; there are only 17, and they're just some thoughts I've had, and you don't have to know them before you die, or at all, if you don't want to...
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Your Billions Will Not Grant You An Exemption From The Indignity Of Death
A compendium of small thoughts about money, the technowanker apocalypse, weather, history, music and semi-colons
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Brad Francis, Deputy Assistant Senior Head Negotiator Of Sales Experience
New fiction