‘We need a writer for an animated TV show. It’s from a concept by Viv Stanshall – ’ I was off like a shot. Viv Stanshall? The Bonzos ....

Three years ago I rewrote Frankenstein as an interactive novel . Establishing a timeline was my first task; Mary Shelley didn’t tell us a...

There's so little really good writing on UK television these days that when we come across something exceptional it's worth shou...

Not wanting to plunge into the intercalary days with a snotty review headlining the blog (see how superstitious I am for a rationalist?) I a...

I don't want the blog to turn into serial excoriations of the latest bit of entertainment to waste my time. Honestly, I'd far rat...

There’s a line near the start of Sunset Boulevard . Nancy Olson dismisses William Holden’s screenplay with the words, “It’s from hunger.” ...

A friend of mine once read the first volume of the Mirabilis Winter book on the night-train out of Moscow when snow threatened to stop him ...