The Well-Tempered Clavier

A review - a fantastically kind review - for "Lord Lucan: My Story" in the Glasgow Herald.
 
Alastair Mabbott, I owe you one very large drink …
 
"A modest book from a small publisher, this fictionalised memoir of the missing Seventh Earl of Lucan punches well above its weight.

  "With the runaway peer’s associates John Aspinall and […]

Bit of a story about Lord Lucan in the Sunday Telegraph today - followed by an interview with Sky TV. Bang in the middle of the deciding set at Wimbledon …
 
Slightly perturbed to see that, as a plinther (technical term for all the great and the good appearing on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square), […]

Occasionally in my alter ego as Bill Coles, journalist-of-note, I write stuff for the London papers.
 
The Express is my paper of choice. We have a fantastic mutual-admiration society.
 
Here’s a little piece I’ve done for them on Top Gear. 
 
Next item: What my id does when he’s writing …
 
PS. The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, 4pm to 5pm […]

A good friend has set up a website, the better to track down Lord Lucan.
 
Although only in its infancy, we have high hopes that Lord Lucan.org will soon be topping Google …
 
The definitive site, perhaps, for all things Lucan. x

Just to let you know that I’ve got a new book out. It’s called "Lord Lucan: My Story" - pretty much does what it says on the cover.
 
Just click here for the Amazon link
 
   The Well-Tempered Clavier is also now out in the States - under the catchier title "Prelude". Not to mention a […]

Ahemmm! Very sorry for the minor blogging hiatus. Had stuff to write; children to feed; wives to watch telly with; publishers to swear at … guess you probably know the drill. In future, I will endeavour to make this blog a weekly event; daily blogging is too much drudgery. And as for Twitter??? Forget it!
 
Anyway […]

The Well-Tempered Clavier is due out in the US next spring - and already those efficient and devastatingly competent people at Soho Press in New York have given it a double-page spread  in their 2009 listings guide.
 
Not only that but they’ve given it a much better title; and, ahem, a much better cover.
 
Here it is:
 

 
 
All […]

Apologies for the lack of communication these past three weeks. Stuff going on. Kids’ half-term. I’m sure you know how it is for us struggling writers.
 
Anyway! What do I care? I have much, much news to report about Project X - the book project, that is, that was finished about two months ago, and for […]