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...

Bob Dylan’s relationship with the truth has always been a complex one. The recent biopic of his early career, A Complete Unknown, which I managed to see last weekend (and it’s brilliant, by the way, with Timothee Chalamet a perfect fit for the magnetic, contradictory central figure) does...