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...

Author Speaks

Added on 16 July 2015

Here's a thing I made for the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT), in which I talk about THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON being made into a movie. I'm wearing my daughter's glasses. It's my Clark Kent disguise. In reverse. I put the glasses on and suddenly I'm someone worth listening t...

A Brief History of A ROOM WITH NO NATURAL LIGHT

Added on 13 July 2015

When we lived in Warsaw, we used to get a babysitter every Monday evening and we’d go to a movie. Every Monday. The foreign movies played in original language with Polish subtitles, but then it was mostly only the big movies that came. Take away movies that we’d go to with the kids, and ...

Those Altered Barney Thomson Titles Explained

Added on 24 June 2015

For a variety of reasons – changing publishers, the whims of an American movie company and the author being an eejit – the first four books in the Barney Thomson series have two titles each. It’s not all that confusing, it’s certainly not rocket science, indeed it’s not...