Barney Thomson Book 4: THE RESURRECTION OF BARNEY THOMSON

Added on 19 December 2012

The fourth Barney Thomson novel was written at a time when my kids were pretty young. The age of nursery rhymes and Winnie the Pooh and the always execrable JJ The Jet Plane. This fed into some sort of concept for the novel. Even before I'd started, the book had the title THE KING WAS IN HIS CO...

Short Extract from SANTA'S CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES

Added on 07 December 2012

This week sees the release of the re-vamped, supersized, The Night Santa Got The Blues redux, SANTA'S CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES. In this short extract, Henry F Potter, President of the Board of The Big Fat Father Christmas Corporation, tries to impress upon his colleagues the grave danger of the situ...

SANTA'S CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES

Added on 06 December 2012

It's tradition around these parts that every Christmas Douglas Lindsay's classic children's tale, The Night Santa Got The Blues, is put up on this website for millions of readers around the world to enjoy, free of charge. On a par with eating mince pies, maxing out on credit cards and ...

DCI Jericho in Black & White

Added on 05 December 2012

Back in the days before Blasted Heath, I started developing a plan for what to do post-Barney Thomson. Publisher-less and agent-less I decided I needed something bold and dramatic and testicle-grabbing. And then when I couldn't think of anything along those lines, I just thought of something th...

Movie Update for THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON

Added on 04 December 2012

So, this is the text of a piece that appeared in the Daily Record yesterday: HOLLYWOOD star Robert Carlyle is set to make his debut as a director with a film about a Glasgow killer. The Scottish actor insists the time is finally right, after more than 20 years in front of the camera, to make his ow...