‘Do you want the bad news or the good news?’ I remember my old man used to spring this question on me sometimes, usually in a context where I knew that both pieces of news would pertain to football.Usually I’d go for the bad news first: so I’d hear, say, that Blackburn had only managedContinue reading “Silver Linings”
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Hotel Hokusai at Bloody Scotland!
Excitingly I’ve been picked as one of 16 Crime in the Spotlight writers to appear before headliners at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling in September. I’ll be on at 4.30pm on Friday 13th September, at the Auld Reekie event featuring Ambrose Parry and Mairi Kidd. Me up first doing a very short intro andContinue reading “Hotel Hokusai at Bloody Scotland!”
Ready to Launch
I received a final pdf manuscript of The Hotel Hokusai just before Christmas. After reading it through, and having one or two tiny changes to send as feedback, I had a real sense of ‘At last! We’re ready to launch.’ Perhaps this is how space scientists feel, seeing the rocket in position at the launchContinue reading “Ready to Launch”
On the trail of the Celtic Japonistes
My novel The Hotel Hokusai is due to be published later this year by Glasgow’s Ringwood Publishing. This is how I came to write about a Scottish artist and a Korean migrant eel vendor in 1890s Yokohama… In the summer of 2014, a couple of months before Scotland’s independence referendum, I was walking down LeithContinue reading “On the trail of the Celtic Japonistes”
The Hotel Hokusai
“How would you react if you arrived, young and alone, with very little and knowing no one, in a strange city?” My first novel, The Hotel Hokusai, is published by Glasgow’s Ringwood Publishing in February 2024. Its central character is Han, a linguistically-gifted, investigatively-inclined teenage migrant in turn of the 19th century Yokohama, Japan. ReadContinue reading “The Hotel Hokusai”
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