Writing

Perfection

Albert Camus’ novel The Plague is one of my favourite books, despite its often depressing subject matter: an outbreak of bubonic plague in…

Traction

It’s a competitive world out there, in every field. Perhaps nowhere more so than in the marketplace for books. There are now many thousands of…

Scaffolding

I spent much of my working life writing software rather than writing words, though I did a lot of that, too.

Knowing when to stop

“I never stop writing a book; I just stop typing it.”

― Attributed to Ernest Hemingway

Fortunately, the Milk ~ Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell

The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton

This is one of those books which when you’ve reached the end, makes you want to turn around and start…

The Age of Wonder — Richard Holmes

I have always been very interested in the history of science and technology, and this book really…

King Solomon’s Carpet : Barbara Vine

E-book on my iPad

Short Story Collections — David R. Grigg

A reminder, if you follow me, that I’m a writer as well as a reader! Mostly what I write has a science-fiction flavour, but I also write non-genre stories.