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What a way to start the working week - a free sample from Last Writer Sitting: My hair had grown long and greyer, even white in places thanks to the stresses of the year, with the luxury of a haircut something I couldn’t entertain as regularly as I used to. My daughter had offered to step in and snip, but my loyalties lay with the brilliant Lucio’s barber shop just off the high street. Cuts there gave me a rare chance to converse with fellow males away from the enclosed world

Sportsmen have long accepted injuries as part and parcel of their trade. Even touring musicians have had their fair share of incidents on stage (usually falling off it) – think The Edge and Dave Grohl in recent years.   Unlike their sporting counterparts, and to their eternal credit, neither of the above performers were seen rolling around in agony following their pretty serious injuries. Grohl, in particular, proved the legend he is by living out another showbiz legend: the

The Diamond Rush, my first novel, has built up a cult following since being published in 2012. And by cult I mean small, niche.   The early drafts of the Money Star were written while I lived in a flat above a pub on Leather Lane, the next road west from Hatton Garden. And it's on Hatton Garden, down an alleyway that you could easily walk past if you didn't know it was there, that this gem of a pub can be found if you look closely enough. Here's the view from the street. You

Fellow self-published authors generating but a handful of sales. You are not my enemy. And I am not yours.   It is those who populate the...