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Weird. Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy is seriously weird. Structurally so. It’s as if he has taken a 3 or 4 page short story, photocopied it multiple times, then cut the pages up between paragraphs before throwing them up in the air and then entering them into the ‘narrative’ however they fell.…
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The first time I read Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse was around forty-six years ago. I have just re-read it. Not only that, but I was reading from the self same book I purchased in 1980! Boy, are the pages yellowed and dry! I had forgotten just how wonderful the…
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I am delighted to announce the publication of my latest collection of short stories, Dead-heading Roses in the Museum Garden and Other Stories Amazon – Waterstones – Barnes & Noble Some say there is but a thin dividing line between tragedy and comedy, victory and defeat. Many of the protagonists in Dead-heading Roses in…
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I am delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of my latest collection of short stories, Dead-heading Roses in the Museum Garden and Other Stories, on 14th March 2026. The book is available to pre-order now. Amazon – Waterstones – Barnes & Noble Some say there is but a thin dividing line between tragedy…
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For me, Ben Markovits’ The Rest of Our Lives really only got going once the protagonist was started on his road trip. Everything that came before seemed slightly confusing, as if I was being given too much information, too much back story. My conclusion was to wonder whether the book…
