Hello everyone, Sadly the time has come for me to update you all. Glen passed away last Wednesday, 15th May at 12.30. It was peaceful, pain free and at home, just as he wanted. A very close friend of ours and I looked after Glen on in the hours before he passed, with sunshine and […]
I have lived a good life. A really good one. I’ve had the fortune to meet, befriend, and work with incredibly interesting people and in some cases make some sort of impact. It hasn’t been a particularly long life – I’m not sure at what point I reached ‘middle age’ but if so I think […]
Sorry for the lack of an update. I’m still in hospital and it’s honestly been so day by day that I haven’t been able to put something coherent that would answer your questions. Sorry if I haven’t been responsive to your texts, tweets, (I haven’t been on facebook in two weeks), whatsapps, etc. It’s all […]
Hi everyone. This is… not easy and really shit. Some of you know I’ve been tired and out of sorts for a few months, and that I had to cut a work trip to Viet Nam short. I’m currently in hospital (St Thomas’ in London) getting another battery of tests done. I came back jaundiced […]
This won the Kitschies last year, which should be enough to sway you, but in case not… In a word, batshit. Charmaine & Stan are living in their car as the world collapses around them. It’s somewhere between The Road and The Walking Dead, but they hear about Consilience: a social experiment which takes private […]
Yanagihara is a writer for Conde Nast – and has now put out this book. Like unreliable narrators? Disturbing imagery? Georgeous, lush prose? Dive into this book. It’s a confessional narrative, framed as someone trying to set the record straight, about a young doctor in the 1950s who’s gone to the south Pacific to investigate […]
This week has been mad: work’s been mental and, while I published this blog post earlier, my blog got hacked and I stole a couple of hours on Friday morning sorting it out. Argh. So, to repeat the lost bloggage, long story short, below find the shortlist for The Kitschies. I’m going to bring back […]
James Smythe writes deep, complex novels which are really rather good. The Testimony – which keeps being cheap or free on Kindle, so watch for it – gives us the perspectives of twenty-eight people when a voice starts to speak, like radio directly into most people’s brains. This affects the world on very macro and […]
I don’t think that I know of anyone who likes doing performance reviews. Employees are frightened of them, managers feel like they have to walk a line between ticking boxes to get HR off their back and trying to work out how to give decent feedback. The better managers that I’ve worked with manage to […]
Start with a trope. Turn it on its head. Follow an established storyline. Blow it up right when you know what’s happening. Turn left. Turn left. TURN LEFT. That’s this book. A con-man, a madman, and a wild young girl start off trying to run the biggest con of all, in 15th century Holland. […]