Last Train From Twittersville

Added on 09 January 2013

Had a Twitter account for a while in 2011, didn't like it, closed it down. This is from the blog I wrote at the time: The very idea of followers panders to the modern day notion of the celebration of the individual. The needs of society don't come first any more, the needs of the individual...

THE LAST FISH SUPPER - Making The Da Vinci Code Look Like A Novel, Since 2006

Added on 07 January 2013

Amongst the current exciting batch of digital releases from Blasted Heath is the Grail novel that some critics called "the Da Vinci Code with words", THE LAST FISH SUPPER. Unusually for a Barney Thomson novel there is little to no crime. It's intended to have the feel of a crime novel...

Barney Thomson Book 4: THE RESURRECTION OF BARNEY THOMSON

Added on 19 December 2012

The fourth Barney Thomson novel was written at a time when my kids were pretty young. The age of nursery rhymes and Winnie the Pooh and the always execrable JJ The Jet Plane. This fed into some sort of concept for the novel. Even before I'd started, the book had the title THE KING WAS IN HIS CO...

Short Extract from SANTA'S CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES

Added on 07 December 2012

This week sees the release of the re-vamped, supersized, The Night Santa Got The Blues redux, SANTA'S CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES. In this short extract, Henry F Potter, President of the Board of The Big Fat Father Christmas Corporation, tries to impress upon his colleagues the grave danger of the situ...

SANTA'S CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES

Added on 06 December 2012

It's tradition around these parts that every Christmas Douglas Lindsay's classic children's tale, The Night Santa Got The Blues, is put up on this website for millions of readers around the world to enjoy, free of charge. On a par with eating mince pies, maxing out on credit cards and ...