Five Minutes With....Douglas Lindsay

Added on 31 December 2008

Q: What’s been the best part of this year? A: I discovered these really great doughnuts. Q: Doughnuts? A: Yeah. I’d like to say that I found them in this quiet little patisserie down a side street in a sleepy quarter of Warsaw, that would be far more romantic. In fact you get them in the...

The Jigsaw Man II

Added on 30 December 2008

I continue with Jigsaw Therapy, Prozac at the kitchen table, an attempt to repair the shattered shards of my id, left smashed and strewn by the years of parenthood and the moral bankruptcy of the crime writing psyche. Currently working - if you can call it work - on Michelangelo’s The Last Jud...

The Line of Scrimmage

Added on 29 December 2008

The school holidays continue. Now in their one hundred and fifty-third week. Or so it seems. At some stage I hope to be able to start working again, but for the moment it seems unlikely. In the American variety of football, when the two teams of big sweaty fifty stone men line up opposite each other...

The Basketball Diaries

Added on 26 December 2008

Christmas present for Two of Two (amongst a gazllion other items): a basketball net. I bought one with a stand, because when it comes to fixing things to walls I’m a classic Muppet About The House. For some reason I thought putting a stand together might be more straightforward. As a consequen...

Christmas Morning

Added on 25 December 2008

It begins with a slow awakening, the full horror of what is to come only a rumour, a silent murmur on the chill morning. And then, like the first ripple of water on the glass in Jurassic Park, it comes. Your eyes open, you stare into the darkness. Possibly a dim, grey light etches the curtains...but...