Archive for the ‘Genre’ Category
Everything is copy – review of Nora Ephron Collected
15 May 2020NORA EPHRON COLLECTED I don’t know about you but I am a sucker for Nora Ephron’s screenplay for When Harry…
Talking with comedy best-seller Paul Bassett Davies
06 May 2020PAUL BASSETT DAVIES I’m really pleased that this week we have a guest appearance by the best-selling comedy writer (and…
Spies like us – review of Kate Atkinson’s Transcription
22 Apr 2020SPIES LIKE US Fiction writers are liars by trade and spy novelists are the biggest liars of all. Their entire…
14 things I’ve learned since Corona
09 Apr 2020SHELLEY KATZ ON WHAT SHE’S LEARNED SINCE CORONA I’m delighted to invite the multi-hyphenate American novelist-screenwriter-producer Shelley Katz to provide…
Jeremy Clarkson has the virus
05 Apr 2020JEREMY CLARKSON HAS THE VIRUS I can finally reveal Jeremy Clarkson has contracted the virus CO2-19. He had it before…
A plague on both your houses
25 Mar 2020So now we are visited by the plague, it seems. Plague is an archetype that goes back deep into our…
Q&A with Adam Hamdy, crime author, screenwriter and co-founder of Capital Crime
11 Mar 2020ADAM HAMDY I’m delighted this week to host a question and answer session with the successful crime author and screenwriter…
Who’s to blame for the death of Caroline Flack?
04 Mar 2020Who’s to blame for the death of Caroline Flack? If you believe the tabloids, it’s the police or the Crime…
Collateral damage – review of Berta Isla by Javier Marías
19 Feb 2020BERTA ISLA Last month I reviewed the latest, possibly last, novel by one of the giants of spy fiction, Agent…
Computer says procrastinate
07 Feb 2020COMPUTER SAYS PROCRASTINATE I went into my study this morning, bouncing, full of ideas for a new short story and…
