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...

10 Things I Think About The Barney Thomson Movie

Added on 19 June 2015

We come to it at last, the great barbershop movie of our times. I wrote the book twenty years ago. At the time, not yet in possession of a PC, the book was written out by hand, on parchment, in the blood of my enemies. Now it’s a movie. Here are some entirely random thoughts. 10. What’s...

Forthcoming Words

Added on 15 June 2015

The screen option on The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson was first taken out seventeen years ago this November. It’s been a long wait, and now the film is finally set for release, receiving its world premiere at the opening night of the Edinburgh Film Festival on Wednesday, before being releas...

In The Works

Added on 18 April 2015

Once more back in the world of the diplomatic spouse, I’ve been doing the usual rounds of cocktail parties, British Embassy events and drinking vodka at ten o’clock in the morning in a melancholic depressive haze of misery. I’ve also been writing some books. Here’s what&rsquo...