When Ernest Hemingway was asked how you could know whether you could trust someone, he growled: ‘Trust ‘em’, before banging his empty glass on the El Floridita bar, trusting that the barman would give him another daiquiri as perfect as... Read More
A few weeks ago, I got a book through the post. Nothing unusual about that. But once I realised which book this was, I pulled the packaging apart with more than my usual gusto. Which, given that it was a... Read More
A few weeks back I opened my copy of The Author, journal of the Society of Authors. For the first time I could remember in over twenty years of membership, the magazine contained not one but two articles on ghostwriting.... Read More
Everybody has their lockdown story. Mine, much to my surprise, is more eventful than I could have anticipated. Inspired by a BBC competition for a short television play showing how people were coping with lockdown, I collaborated with a friend... Read More
How to Cope with Coronavirus The crisis has rather crept up on us. On me, at any rate. Was it only last weekend I was staying with friends in Sussex? There was a slightly jokey non-shaking of hands, and regular... Read More