On the basis of my published novels, Dead Man Singing and Foul and Fair, it won’t surprise anyone to learn that music and football are two of my passions. Two of my favourite broadcasters, Colin Murray and Pat Nevin, combine these with a regular half-hour feature on the former’s Sunday m...

O is for original version. My first attempt at telling the story of Foul and Fair (then going by the title House of Red Cards) came before I wrote Dead Man Singing. I started writing what turned out to be my debut novel while I was unsuccessfully submitting House of Red Cards to agents and publisher...

M is for Macbeth,

My original concept for the book – Roy of the Rovers meets House of Cards – carried an element of Macbeth imagery already, due to parallels between Shakespeare’s tragedy and the political power-grabbing drama. There were always a lot of literary references in my t...