I’m gonna keep this brief this week (he says, ambitiously. Bookmakers the world over begin placing odds on quite how far I will overshoot the general person’s yardstick for what constitutes a “brief” newsletter entry, while dyed-in-the-wool Joz Norris enemies/sceptics scoff at his naive suggestion that his newsletter might be being read by “bookmakers the […]

I felt very lucky to spend the last week in an Alpine chalet in Switzerland teaching on Alice Fraser’s annual writers’ retreat. What a week I had: slowly grooving around my room to the sound of cowbells in the valley, a tankard of pellets in my hand which I would periodically shovel into the pellet […]

Firstly, a huge thanks to everyone who’s already signed up to follow along with this serialised novel project! I really appreciate the early support off the back of merely a handful of mysterious letters and sten do invitations, and I hope the story will continue to entertain and intrigue as it unfolds! For any readers […]