One of my favourite moments in Pop occurs a minute or so into Something by The Beatles, when George Harrison sings, twice, ‘I don’t know’. As the accompanying music swells, George, never the most robust of vocalists, has to strain a bit to answer his own previous...

Here's a short poem of mine about publishing: BOOK LAUNCH BLUES or The Unconditional Love of an Author They say that a book’s like a baby: conception, gestation, release. But you uncork a storm when a baby is born and when most books come out, though their authors...

The title explains what this article I wrote for The Critic magazine is about: https://thecritic.co.uk/god-save-the-kinks/

Here's another of my book reviews for The Critic: https://thecritic.co.uk/fifth-magician-blues/

Bit of a labour of love, this... https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-2023/those-golden-years/

Further to my previous post, here is the 'official' link to the BBC Radio 4 dramatization of my novel: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m4cx

Simon Russell Beale will play E M (Morgan) Forster and Tyger Drew-Honey will play Syd Barrett in the BBC Radio 4 dramatization of my short 2018 novel The Ballad of Syd & Morgan on Saturday 20 May 2023 at 3.00 pm. The book has been adapted for radio by Roger James...

New year, new direction. I hope very soon to be notifying the world, here, of a new writing venture which has taken even me by surprise. Watch this space!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. I’m painfully aware how long ago I last wrote. It was on 28 November 2019 to be precise, and few people’s worlds now look the same as they did back then. By way of an update on my own activities, I reproduce below part of an article...

You wait for months for an update, then two come along at once. This time, a British music magazine, Shindig!, ran an appreciative review of the novel. Like a number of other reviews, it mentions how suitable the story would be for a stage adaptation, and some moves...