A is for ambition. Once I started work on Imogen Imagine, I realised that in a number of ways it was a more ambitious work than my previous books. For one, I was a man in his 50s writing from the perspective of a 20-year-old woman. I’ve written from a female perspective before – Hayley B...

So here’s something I wouldn’t have believed a few years ago: I can now announce the release date for my very own hit single. On the 12th of September the song Imogen Imagine by Carl Denby will drop on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, and pretty much all the major streaming platforms. It&rs...

Grace Petrie’s music arrived in my life around 2023, somewhere between Dead Man Singing being accepted for publication and its actual release into the world in September of that year. Petrie has since become one of my favourite songwriters, equally capable of turning her astute wordplay to the...

As someone who has written many times about musicians, I have often reflected on the difference between the life of a novelist and that of a musician. Musicians are, first and foremost, performers. When they are creating their art, the final expression of it comes in performance, in getting in front...