Some of you may have noticed a few recent Facebook posts of mine mentioning my latest book addiction: the novels of Raymond Chandler. Chandler’s works were something I’d always just taken for granted. I knew who he was and I’d seen The […]
Met an elderly friend of my in-laws last week who, just by chance and not knowing that I was a novelist, related an anecdote about when he was an undergraduate at Oxford in the late-1950s. He had recently read JRR Tolkien’s Lord of […]
It’s publication week for The Guns of Ivrea, my first secondary-world fantasy which combines traditional epic swashbuckling with a slightly contemporary edge. Set in a renaissance-like Mediterranean world, the story revolves around a set of characters that couldn’t be more different yet […]
Wrote a retro review for the July issue of SFX Magazine which the editors have graciously allowed me to reproduce here. It was a very different experience reading R.E. Howard again after so many years–and not an altogether pleasant one. Have a read and let […]