Author and Renaissance wannabe
A slightly different style of influence here. As I’m blogging about my influences, I can’t do anything other than include and have happy thoughts when looking at the ‘Rupert books’. Sitting on my mum’s knee, having these read to me in the early seventies was …
Read MoreSo here it is, the official launch of the website today. It’s been a long time coming I know, but I needed to line my ducks up, as the sayting goes, so everything was in the right order. As of today, for a few months, …
Read MoreI first came across ‘Fundamentals‘ in the early nineties and it was a bit of a revelation to me. I was a real poetry snob at the time, and I don’t think I really knew anything post-1970, assuming it was all bollocks. But I loved …
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I’d already written one novel in the 1990’s, based around six friends in Manchester (called Love Isn’t) but rather than editing and publishing, I moved on to other things, and in the middle of 2005 had developed the routine, much as the character in my …
Read MoreAll going well here, as we get closer to official launch of the website. Keep your eyes on the countdown for that on the front page. Hopefully you’ve managed to have a look around and found some things of interest by now. Along with the …
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This is a wonderful opportunity for me to pay back someone for recommending a fantastic book to me, by doing the same and passing on the praise for it to you. I first heard The Lonely Londoners discussed on a radio 4 programme at the …
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I know there are dozens of versions of this song, and some people swear by Leonard Cohen’s original but the emotion in the guitar playing as well as the voice of this one gets me every time. And I mean the original studio version rather …
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I find one of the best places to lose myself is the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, which has a wonderful collection of pre-Raphaelite and other artworks. But one which always draws my eye is Andromeda by William Etty. It’s not the best …
Read MoreI always intended to include an occasional series here about the process of writing, including a realtime posting of the difficulties I’m facing as I create new material. There will be posts coming up doing just this, looking at issues around my new novel, ‘The …
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A Carol Symphony – Victor Hely-Hutchinson [CD – Naxos 8.557099] This is quite an unusual recommendation from me for several reasons, partly because it’s a classical music CD, which isn’t usually my main taste in listening, partly because it’s very Christmas related, and I’m not …
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