THE SKINNER

Fuck shit cunt bollocks and buggeration gets the swearing out of the way. In the weeks before christmas Max started having epileptic fits ag...

Now, I’ve always ascribed to the dictum ‘use it or lose it’. If you don’t use your muscles they become weaker and if you don’t use them at ...

Okay, Maynard1977 has asked me if I’ve got any more books coming out, so I’ll sum up where things are so far. My (available) books thus far ...

What is it now? Six out of ten crimes are now drug-related. Knowing that the police now regard something like a playground row to be a ‘cr...

I found this on the Dawkin’s website courtesy of a comment by one Sancus: “The association of modern atheism with Stalin and Mao has lo...

Ooh, shiny. I've just received the full dust jacket for Hilldiggers from Peter Lavery at Macmillan, (along with some more of the content...

Oh dear, it seems we have a serial killer getting up to speed in Ipswich, which is about a three-quarter-hour drive up the A12 from where we...

Mmm, perhaps I need to do a little less ranting here, not to stop pissing people off, but to keep myself sane. Really, if you look for it, ...

You know, it is unfortunate and horrible when a child is ill. It is unfortunate and horrible when anyone is ill. But why oh why are all si...

Oh bloody hell. It now seems the porkers of Britain will be able to get dance lessons on the NHS. After spending £2.5 million on ‘Local Exe...

Every now and again I’ll read something, blink, read it again, then listen for the theme music from The Twilight Zone playing in the backgr...

T. B. Liar is apparently going to announce plans for a new generation of nuclear missile submarines but, as far as Trident is concerned, ...

For those of you who followed the Max saga, here's an update ... or rather a video clip of him from a week ago, eating far too many bisc...

Other than to say thank you very much every now and again I don’t normally make any reply to reviews. Having seen quite a few of them now I ...

Ah, the juggernaut rolls on: the Czech publisher Polaris have now made an offer for  Brass Man , which they intend to publish in the nex...

Ah, I do like this: “Wars are still waged, crimes committed, and science undone out of deference to an invisible being who is believed ...

Some while ago Tor US sent me an ARC of Peter Watts’ excellent book Blindsight , which I read almost in a state of shock because it was so ...

Who saw Life on Earth a couple of nights back? It showed chimps going to war with another tribe of their own kind, then killing a baby (en...

But the Japanese have got some catching up to do with the Germans. Bastei Lubbe have bought everything up to Hilldiggers, in fact they took ...

Liz Johnson (Rights & Co-editions Manager at Macmillan) “…is truly delighted to report a Japanese deal for COWL. This is particularly ex...