On The Russian Barney Thomson Movie Poster

Added on 04 May 2016

THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON is slowly being rolled out around the world, in dribs and drabs. Now you’d think what with me being a) the author of the book and b) a major player in the movie business – kind of like Stanley Kubrick multiplied by Billy Wilder – that I’d have som...

5 Astonishing* Facts About SONG OF THE DEAD

Added on 24 March 2016

(*May not be astonishing) To mark publication day for SONG OF THE DEAD, here are five astonishing facts about the novel the critics are already calling, "the new book by the guy who wrote that other one." 1. SONG OF THE DEAD is the first book in the planned Detective Inspector Ben Westphal...

Song Of The Dead eBook Available - Nations Celebrate

Added on 16 March 2016

In what pundits, commentators, journalists and crazy people on the Internet are calling “the most important event of the year”, Freight Books yesterday announced that the digital edition of Douglas Lindsay’s forthcoming crime fiction sensation, SONG OF THE DEAD, has already been ma...

Appearance at Aye Write!

Added on 05 February 2016

Trainline.com. I book in advance. I am train Someone presented that in a meeting, and other people sitting around the table said, 'fuck, yeah, that's awesome', and then they talked for another three or four hours and decided to leave off the full stop at the end. Now it's a thing. So...

The Ginger Kid In Centre Midfield

Added on 13 January 2016

I played on the school football team in Primary 7. There were twelve of us available to play, and I alternated with one other kid as substitute. The day they took the school photo, I wasn’t picked for the match, and there were only eleven jerseys to go round, so I mumped off somewhere in a cla...