An Ingenious Plan To Cure Opera

Added on 16 September 2010

Funny thing opera. On the one hand it's the absolute pinnacle of human artistic achievement. So many different facets of art welded into one, of music and drama and storytelling. Orchestral music, itself, is a wonder, so many varied instruments blended into one perfect whole; add in the story and th...

And The Doughnut Eaters Shall Inherit The Girth

Added on 15 September 2010

Work continues here at Long Midnight Publishing Headquarters, in our new executive office suite high above Central Park in the very heart of Manhattan's publishing district, on getting the next book in the Barney Thomson series ready for e-publication. The King Was In His Counting House should be du...

Making The List

Added on 14 September 2010

Last week's Bookseller had an interesting list of the Top 10 authors with the greatest number of No.1 books since records began. (Unlike weather records and the pop hit parade, these records only began in 1998. Who knows what they did before that? Possibly it was just someone else other than Nielsen...

All In The Mind

Added on 13 September 2010

As of last week, bizarre, fast-paced, new-age severed-hand thriller The Lost Symbol, by the relatively unknown American hack scribbler Dan Brown, had sold 490,006 copies in paperback in the UK. So writing about it twice doesn't seem out of place. There's some amount of, what some might call, comple...

Waiting For A Sign

Added on 10 September 2010

Disconcerting reports have reached Long Midnight Publishing Headquarters here in the heart of London of plans by an American pastor to publicly burn the entire canon of Barney Thomson books this weekend. The Rev Terry Jones, formally of Monty Python, originally stated that many of the books in the ...