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How the ECB, Sky and the Tories are destroying cricket 30 May 2013 | 03:59 am
Imagine this. You’re the captain of a village cricket team and you’re trying to get players together for a league match. You phone almost 50 people, and you manage to get only 9 people prepared to pla...
Kara's birthday poem 19 Apr 2013 | 02:04 am
I should have posted this at the end of March, when it was Kara's birthday. Histories Where should I start, And how do I begin? There are stories in all of us That want to be told. This is what ...
Remembering The Dictator 9 Apr 2013 | 03:48 pm
So she killed my generation And I’m supposed to keep my mouth shut? So she killed my county And we’re supposed to be kind to her Now she’s dead? Let her family mourn in peace And remember Those...
Birthday poem for Alex 25 Feb 2013 | 01:35 pm
How It Is This is how it is. The things we do best we never plan. We just let go, so our bodies take over. The memory of where our feet fell, In beautiful balance, at that perfect moment. And ou...
A Study - transcript from my journal, 20/02/2013 22 Feb 2013 | 11:03 pm
Sitting in Waterstones Piccadilly. Queues forming for Nicholas Sparks and two actors from his latest book to be made into a film. I'll be there one of these days. I refuse to give up now. Have tweete...
Valentine's Day poem 15 Feb 2013 | 02:05 am
The things I wish for always disappear. I don't see enough of you, naked, in the soft light of day, nor in the harshness of artificial light, now I think about it. Routine and habits divide us. Some...
Why I've become sexually explicit 15 Jan 2013 | 04:30 am
Let me tell you a secret. At one point in Dead Men, I closed a chapter without what my editor considered a suitable climax, for want of a better word. So he asked me to write a sex scene, so that “rea...
On 2012 24 Dec 2012 | 02:39 pm
As I get ready to turn my machines off for over a week, the time has come for a brief reflection on this year. I know I still owe posts for my summer travels, for many things, but now's not the time. ...
Radio Stradbroke Sunday Sessions 2 Dec 2012 | 09:42 pm
Well, a mix-up in diaries meant I got to do my second solo show in this season of Radio Stradbroke's Sunday Sessions, and the three hours just zipped by. I managed to play 39 tracks in 3 hours, 13 tra...
Amundsen's Secret Diary 12 Nov 2012 | 05:01 am
Any author goes through countless versions of a book before the final, definitive text is sent to be published. Dead Men was no different. There were three different endings, several different time li...
