Tony Blair Is Back - Here's The Song From The Last Time He Left

Added on 11 July 2012

Tony Blair wants to be Prime Minister again. Which seems weird. When he left the last time, The Mabel Rankin Beat Quartet recorded a song about it. This is it. Elvis Shackleton

Uncovered Barbershop Scene Revealed To Be Authentic Barney Thomson

Added on 06 July 2012

There has been speculation for some time about the authenticity of the Genoa Barbershop Scene, so-called because it was uncovered beneath a 19th century painting of Christ on the wall of a crumbling chapel in the Italian city. In this week's edition of the New Scientist, however, Professor Nige...

An Everyday Tale of Modern Life (And How Fucking Annoying It Can Be)

Added on 05 July 2012

This is just an everyday tale of modern life, one that most people could tell. I’ve edited out as many uses of the word ‘fuck’ as I could, but inevitably many of them still crept in… So last week I get an e-mail from my publisher saying that against all the odds I had earne...

The Mythical Curse of Barney Thomson

Added on 02 July 2012

Rumours have long circulated in the crime fiction world of a mysterious and unfinished 8th Barney Thomson novel, which author Douglas Lindsay reputedly abandoned as a lost cause, long before his eventual disappearance. Now reports coming out of Boca Rotan, Florida, suggest that a manuscript has bee...

10 Lines From Barney Thomson Novels That You Won’t Find In The Oxford Book Of Quotations

Added on 28 June 2012

Some say that the Barney Thomson series is so extraordinary that it can be seen from space. Others that the series has redefined the very nature of existence. In this list, Elvis Shackleton, one time Long Midnight Publishing marketing supremo, provides a small taster of the series that the critics ...