At the start of this year, dizzy from gorging end-of-year ‘best of’ lists and trying frantically to remember everything I saw/read/played...

It's been a busy old first half of the year, so I thought it worth pausing to collage together some of the various notable bits and...

Every year when the Oscar nominees are doing the rounds, I always intend to see each of the Best Picture films before the ceremony, and...

Another day, another project. At the back end of last year, with a work-in-progress milestone reached, my fingers were itchy for creative...

I’m trying to learn, I think, what is possibly the greatest skill of middle adulthood: the mental management of the relentless flow of...

Weird times call for weird fictions. We're all looking over our various shoulders at the lurking shadows and the too-bright lights...

Full-Time Quietly, with only a little fuss, I've ov'rleapt the final cliff-edge and plummeted out of my day job into the PhD full-time....

Since the start of the year I’ve been engaged in a regular creative endeavour that has evolved and transformed all I thought I knew about...

One of the greatest pleasures of having writers as friends is when they ask your opinion on their works in progress. It’s always an...

For a long while I tried to keep my gastronomical inclinations out of my animal stories after deeming meat-eating too obvious a target...