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Added on 24 September 2015

Some updated info on The Legend of Barney Thomson. No news yet on overseas release dates, though. Presumably there are some pencilled in for somewhere, but if I can just quote Hot Fuzz – as anyone who’s ever lived in Wells is more or less obligated to do on a daily basis – nobody t...

The Forthcoming Return of DCI Jericho - 2

Added on 23 September 2015

I can’t remember exactly when WE ARE THE HANGED MAN was first released. On its Amazon Kindle page it states 5th December 2013, but that’s only because that was the date that Blasted Heath transferred distribution of all their titles to Faber Factory. I think Hanged Man might have been ou...

The Forthcoming Return of DCI Jericho - 1

Added on 22 September 2015

And we’re back. Summer is over, back to work in my apartment in Tallinn. The last two weeks spent going over copy edits, now time to get down to something new. More on that at some future date (when, for example, I’ve worked out what it is.) Meanwhile, we have the return of DCI Jericho. ...

The Long And Winding Road Of The Barber Barney Thomson To The Big Screen

Added on 24 July 2015

One morning in November 1998 a letter arrived from the screen agent Rod Hall. There was a lot of movie interest in my yet-to-be-published first book The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson. An American producer had already made an offer, and several other companies were also seriously looking at it. It ...

Blah blah blah Amazon blah blah blah

Added on 21 July 2015

So I’ve got this thing going on with Amazon at the moment. The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson was originally published by Piatkus Books back in 1999. A year later they brought out a new edition, not because they’d sold out the first one, but because they wanted to change the cover to ti...