My novel – The Innocent’s Story – is a dangerous book. (This article written on first publication of Innocent’s Story 2005) I didn’t know that when I wrote it. I thought it was a serious and moral attempt to contextualise terrorism for children. If the idea of talking to children about suicide bombing makes you […]
The Good, The Bad & the Opera
Is every soul born good? This is the question which opens my novel Knight Crew. I’d written a 150 pages of the book – my re-telling of the King Arthur legend set in contemporary gangland – when I was invited to a Music-in-Prisons event at Prison A. (This article first appeared as a guest blog […]
To Play Or Not To Play
The ink was barely dry on the final draft of my novel The Flask when the National Theatre rang me up and asked if I wanted to write a play. (This article first appeared as a Foyles Guest blog in 2012) There was a silence my end of the phone. “You’re not going to say […]