The Well-Tempered Clavier

I have a friend, Maguire. One of those sorts of guys who thinks the very best of everyone they meet. Who loves nothing more than picking up little birds with broken wings and nurturing them back to good health. Who sees a stray dog wandering down the street and wants nothing more than to adopt […]

I’ve been in touch with Matthew Wright, who used to be just another scumbag hack like me until he landed his morning show on Channel Five. I first met Matthew 13 years ago when he was on The Sun and he’s a little charmer.
I pinged him an e-mail:
"Hi Matthew, did you see that stuff […]

Idle Tom the publisher has been like a dog with a bone on this one. There’s no stopping him.
"Look, Bill," he said. "I’ve even written out the e-mail for you to send her."
"Are you insane?" I watched him picking at his spiky hair; he was like a chimp on heat. "You’ve written out an e-mail […]

Missed the link to my Mail on Sunday story about Life on the Volcano’s Edge?
Just click here
It’s the real story of my first marriage.

Yet another extraordinary idea from Idle Tom the publisher. I haven’t a clue where they come from. Maybe he’s finally got himself a girlfriend … (that one is a bit unlikely though)
"Bill!" he said during our morning conference. "What about poking the hornet’s nest?"
I was a little concerned by this one. "Poking the hornet’s nest? […]

Well - I hadn’t thought that I’d been one for Kiss ‘n’ Tells …
But if it helps flog the book, then an author’s gotta do what an author’s gotta do.
And so it was that yesterday, and for the first time, I - to give it its technical term - "spilled my guts" about what life […]

Hello loyal blog-readers! Purely for your entertainment, this website now has MUSIC.
  Jamie from Terinea is still working on the actual link, but you can click on http://www.wcoles.com/the-video/ and you’ll be straight through to three preludes.
  Now - wait for it, wait for it - if everything has gone to plan, there should be […]

Dilemmas, dilemmas … Whether to keep Idle Tom the publisher happy and spill the beans on my ex-wife Anna - or whether to continue this stoic self-imposed silence that I have been maintaining for the past six years.
I mean, on the one hand, I could just give a paper like, say, the Mail on […]