Yesterday I had the enormously wonderful privilege of speaking at Eltham College. This was not only because it is a very nice school to visit, but also because it happens to be where Mervyn Peake went to school. That’s him, second from the left in the back row of the 1928/1929 Rugby team. I was…

A while ago, I posted some words on My New Book… That was at the front end of the summer I think, and back then, it was all going along really well. I’d done ten thousand words fairly speedily (and it’s aways been my belief that fast writing is good writing, because it shows that…

In the words of my headmaster, back in 1986: “I said last year that Marcus needs to show more ambition. The remark still stands.” Well, today, I wrote six thousand words of my new novel, yesterday I wrote a three thousand word early reader, tomorrow I’m flying to New York to finish writing a contracted…