While not as famous or as glam as Bob Gottlieb, I was another editor who turned it down. By the time it arrived on my desk it had found a publisher in the states and the saga of its road to publication was already […]

Michael Moorcock?

Since it seems not everybody saw your post (including me), why don’t you just abandon your disappearance into purdah and tell us about your hangover?

When I was at the Jennings and Darbyshire stage I also read the Pocomoto books by Rex Dixon (westerns) and Kemlo books by E C Elliott (space). I had no idea until just now that they were written by the same man, […]

I listen to music all the time, although to be honest much of it goes in one ear and out the other. Very little that I’m hearing for the first time continues to grab me after the first two or three tracks, then I […]

You see, this is why I love poking around among the forgotten authors. Never read the Smiley books, but I did see the movie when I was a kid (starring a Bee Gee-to be, fact fans). Curious about Moore Raymond, I […]

Well gosh…thanks KFD! I’ve forgotten more forgotten authors than I’ve had hot dinners, but I’ll try to come up with a few….

This rather ramshackle duet seemed like the collision of two separate worlds at the time, although we soon got used to it.

Green here, by post – in part to honour Keith Taylor, my brother-in-law, who has served valiantly as a Green MEP for the SE since 2010 and has had to put up with Farage’s shenanigans all that time (when he […]

Long 3 years maybe, but at least it’s not 5, as in UK.

Strikes me Labor might benefit from another female leader next time.

Except stuck up on a stick.

True that, but I’m another one of the idiots who paid his licence fee. So my conscience is clear.

I’m happily watching Killing Eve series 2 on ABC here in Oz, and you’re not (unless you’re going behind the Eel Market). Don’t ask me why.

As nervous as you can be while being, er, dead. Welcome back!

My son and daughter, who were at different schools, were in their respective orchestras for school performances of musicals at about the same time – West Side Story and Guys and Dolls. My two favourite musicals – […]

I remember seeing a documentary about the making of the ‘operatic’ album in which Bernstein got massively pissed off with Jose Carreras because he just wasn’t getting it. I suppose it’s hardly Carreras’s fault if […]

I bet none of these buggers have ever heard The Rockin’ Style of John D Loudermilk. Tchah, amateurs.

“Mick Hucknall has done quite a lot better than Nick Drake ever did. Just sayin’….” Mostly by not dying.

Is this the moment to say, ‘You had to be there’?

I do.