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 ourselves more time? We’ve all felt we’ve wanted just another half hour in bed, another day to get that assignment finished, another...

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 spent the night on a hospital ward watching TV with a very elderly man and a lad in his early twenties who was in all kinds of trac...

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 naturally been casting an eye northward, to the UK City of Culture for 2017. We’ve marvelled at the explosion in its arts and craft...

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 remembered for steering them to the semi-finals in 1990. But when I heard the news, it was visions of the 1986 tournament that came fl...

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 convictions that I'm happy to know as little about as possible.

But in his day, he was a genuine marvel. The Marvel Method of making c...

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 process by having authors petition for subscribers, they echo the ways that writer's funded works in the 18th Century. There you...

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 petitioned for subscribers before embarking on his great projects - his dictionary, his complete works of Shakespeare - so Unbound authors...