Archive for the ‘Satire’ Category
Win a personally signed hardback copy of The Breaking of Liam Glass
18 Nov 2020COMPETITION: THE BREAKING OF LIAM GLASS To celebrate the launch of the second edition of my 5* darkly humorous thriller…
Fight club: Review of Lionel Shriver’s The Motion of the Body Through Space
11 Nov 2020LIONEL SHRIVER’S THE MOTION OF THE BODY THROUGH SPACE Bestselling author Lionel Shriver is not one to run away from…
Breaking bad? Review of Graham Greene’s Travels with My Aunt
30 Oct 2020REVIEW: TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT I’m very into re-reading at the moment (if you’re interested there’s a great article on…
Will you be gripped by The Singapore Grip? Review
26 Sep 2020GRIPPED BY THE SINGAPORE GRIP – REVIEW As disaster looms, the incompetents in charge can offer only complacency, arrogance and…
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…
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…
Today’s posting is gluten-free
18 Dec 2019Just the other day a truck drove past me advertising potato crisps – gluten-free. Very commendable. There was only one…
A senior cabinet politician writes…
05 Dec 2019A SENIOR CABINET POLITICIAN WRITES With elections that nobody wants coming up fast everywhere, people have been asking me what…
Does satire work?
06 Nov 2019DOES SATIRE WORK? I’m just finishing a book about satire. Satire is flourishing. We satirists like to think that we…
Behind the Headlines: From Britain to Hollywood (and back)
15 Oct 2019Britain to Hollywood All my life I’ve been telling stories. At first, I made up stories to get out of…
