London is a Spook Country for me
Nerd alert: I’m a big fan of William Gibson and I collect signed first edition books of his. Yeah, I even collect the regional versions with different front covers…
William Gibson has a new book out called Spook Country* and he’s doing the rounds at the moment doing book signings. Of course, he [...]
Life is sweet
It’s late afternoon as I write this and Maria McKee’s Why Wasn’t I More Grateful (When Life Was Sweet) is finishing up as I post this. It’s being a very pleasant day so far. And things can only get better.
Had a lie-in this morning before going to the gym. I spent so [...]
Two book reviews for the price of one
I’ve just finished reading two throwaway thrillers and I thought I’d share my thoughts on them with you.
Stephen Leather’s Soft Target is a taut thriller and doesn’t really deserve the throwaway tag. The book contains three storylines that develop seperately for most of the book. Inevitably, these storylines do come together for an [...]
My feet hurt
My feet hurt so much I can hardly walk. I think I can trace my infirmity to Tuesday when I had a couch day. Not a duvet day so beloved of our American cousins but an actual couch day. My office is closed for the week so I had nothing to do [...]
Santa delivers
William Gibson is my favourite author. He hasn’t written anything for awhile but…reading his recent blog, it looks like he’s on the final lap of publishing a new novel. Yippee!
He’s calling it ‘Spook Country‘ for now.
My new novel sort of glances sideways at this “death of cyberspace” meme.
It’s “everting*”, says the [...]