SCENES FROM THE BARBERSHOP FLOOR Now In Book Form

Added on 20 August 2020

It was a regular Friday morning on the Clyde. Sun shining, high, white clouds flitting from west to east, the tide on the wane, the gentle waves catching the light, sparkling with traditional iridescent Scottish splendour... I set out, during the early days of lockdown, to write a weekly Barney Thom...

BARNEY THOMSON on INSTAGRAM

Added on 21 July 2020

In Long Midnight Publishing news, there’s now a dedicated Barney Thomson Instagram page. The page will be publisher-driven, focussing principally on the Barney universe, but also featuring excerpts, quotes and reviews from Douglas Lindsay’s other books and series. Since Lindsay himself i...

COLD SEPTEMBER

Added on 02 May 2020

COLD SEPTEMBER, a collection of short stories in book form, is now available. I’ve made the ebook free on Amazon for the next few days. Thereafter it’ll only be £0.99, so it’s always going to be cheaper than a bag of chips. This, one should note, is not a reflection on its qu...

Upcoming & Ongoing

Added on 20 April 2020

The following will make it look as though I’ve been exceptionally busy during the lockdown, but that hasn’t really been the case. In any event, my life during lockdown is almost exactly the same as regular life, except my wife has to cut my hair. Strangely, she's not letting me recip...

SCENES FROM THE BARBERSHOP FLOOR

Added on 27 March 2020

In these dark times, we must all do what we can. If you’re Bob Dylan, you release a seventeen-minute song about the sixties. And if you’re me, you write more Barney Thomson... I’ve been toying with the idea for a while, a kind of weekly, Barney episode. There’s a scene in Cur...