I'm pleased to announce that  The Hunter's Quarry , my third mainstream thriller published by  The Book Folks , is now available. H...

A couple of years ago I had a conversation with Dude where he expressed amusement over what I had to put up with when I was his age, namel...

Welcome to the start of a new thread where I'll revisit reviews of books by friends and writers I admire, to highlight the works for rea...

My fine friend Richard Farren Barber has a new novella out from Crystal Lake Publishing called Twenty Years Dead (it's very good) and t...

Frenzy , Sir Alfred Hitchcock ’s 52nd film as director, opened in the UK on 25th May 1972.  It was produced by William Hill, written by Anth...

Regular blog readers will know I've been friends with  Sue Moorcroft  since we first met at the Kettering Writers Group in 1999 (we genr...

The ninth,  in an occasional thread , of blog posts celebrating those cheesy, sleazy old-school pulp paperbacks from the 70s and 80s, which ...

For the fifth installment of this long-running occasional feature (you can read the previous entries from  2017 , 2019 , 2020 and 2021 on ...