REVIEW: The Boy Who Stole Time by Mark Bowsher (Unbound, 2018)
Like all the best fantasy novels, the premise of Mark Bowsher’s The Boy Who Stole Time taps into a primal desire. What if we could give...
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REVIEW: Dear Mr Pop Star by Derek & Dave Philpott (Unbound, 2018)
When I was fifteen, I fell off a stool in a Biology lesson and smashed my head first on the corner of the bench and then the lab floor. I...
REVIEW: Sour Fruit by Eli Allison (Unbound, 2018)
Those of us who live in Coventry have had reason to look to Hull in the last year. Since we were named UK City of Culture for 2021, we’ve...
The World Cup, Bobby Robson and Proust
I wrote this in 2009, following the death of Bobby Robson. As manager of England, he had taken his team to two World Cups, and is best...
Steve Ditko, Storyteller
Steve Ditko has died at a grand old age. For years he lived as a recluse, troubled by mental illness and nurturing hard right political...
Read the box set
In my last blog I made the case that Unbound haven't so much created a new way of publishing, as re-established an old one. By beginning...
The story so far...
My novel The Continuity Girl is to be published in a very modern way that is actually centuries old. Just as Dr Johnson would have...