Great On Hot Toast

Added on 12 October 2009

Our local supermarket is the one where Simon Pegg had his big shoot-out in Hot Fuzz. It’s like living on the set of the movie. Yesterday I was in the shop; I’d walked in through the door that Simon Pegg had crashed in through, and in almost as dramatic a turn of events as Pegg has in Ho...

Friday 9th October 2009

Added on 09 October 2009

An exciting day, marked by going on-line to buy a TV aerial cable. Couldn't get one long enough in the local hardware shop. You can probably shop around for TV aerial cables, there are probably TV aerial specific websites; but working on the basis that Amazon sells more or less everything, I went th...

Getting Away With Murder

Added on 08 October 2009

Splendid mention for The Final Cut from Mike Ripley in this month's Getting Away With Murder column in the on-line Shots magazine. He uses the line: Sadly, this could well be the last in Douglas’ hysterical experiment in the extended barbershop death junky novel and the end of Barney Thomson.....

In Conversation With Elvis Shackleton #2

Added on 02 October 2009

In the second of a series of informal discussions to mark the end of the long running Barney Thomson crime series, Long Midnight Publishing Publicity Director, Elvis Shackleton talks to author Douglas Lindsay about The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson. ES: This one got some pretty great reviews. Very ...

The Strange Case of Solomon Green

Added on 22 September 2009

Even more exciting than the release of Bob Dylan's forthcoming Christmas cd, is that the date has been finalised for the digital release of The Strange Case of Solomon Green's debut album. The Lost Warsaw Sessions should hit the on-line stores in early November. Recorded in Warsaw, Poland earlier th...