We were in Newcastle today to see The Tempest, a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Patrick Stewart as Prospero, directed by Rupert Goold at Newcastle Theatre Royal.
Rupert Goold directed Speaking Like Magpies (scroll to 2nd December) in 2005, which was a disappointment. But this production is a triumph and Goold together with the set designer, [...]



Five Questions: Re:mote Voices

1. Why do you blog?
I started writing for the internet in 1997, I guess it was pretty much blogging even back then. Initially I put together a website as part of project for an IT post-grad, which I then looked into setting up properly after the project was done.
The reasons for keeping going are mixed. [...]



Writing The Meanest Flood

The Meanest Flood is the sixth novel in the Sam Turner Series and was born out of a cocktail of ideas. The main aim when I began the narrative was to get Sam and Geordie away from York. To give them an outing away from their usual surroundings. This came from a preoccupation with the [...]






About Writing:

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery. Nelson Algren

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