The Well-Tempered Clavier

One week to go till … WIGGERS! To my mind, the greatest book festival in the whole of the UK. Low-key, charming; it is a complete delight!
 
I’m doing a couple of book slots at the Wigtown Book Festival - on Sunday, September 26. I’ll even be bringing MY OWN READER! How classy is that? I […]

My new book, Mr Two-Bomb , is getting some not bad reviews.
 
And this one - from the Financial Times (who ever would have thought it?) - will almost certainly be on the front cover of the next edition.
 
Here’s what Adrian Turpin so handsomely wrote: "The portrait of life in the destroyed cities – narrated by […]

My 18-year-old nephew William was staying with us in Edinburgh - and needed some exercise.
 
I took him on what will henceforth be known as: "Uncle Billy’s Special Fun Run". It lasts just over an hour - depending on whether you want to take in a pint at the Sheep Heid in Duddingston - and I […]

Don’t know what the hell’s happening with sales of "Dave Cameron’s Schooldays" - but the book is going down not too badly with the nationals
 
The Mirror got stuck in today: "The details are so slick and telling that they could almost have you fooled …"
 
Meanwhile, for the first time in my life, I may even […]

One of the big problems that David Cameron has faced is the slight bother of his Eton education.
 
He’d have a much easier ride at the election if he hadn’t been to Eton and hadn’t joined Oxford’s Bullingdon Club.
 
Unfortunately for the Tory leader, these two facts mark him down as a quintessential toff.
 
But what I find […]

I’ve got a new book out - Dave Cameron’s Schooldays. Entirely in the words of the Tory leader David Cameron - with some very small amount of spice from me - this book details Dave’s astonishing first year at Eton.
 
It includes how Dave was a porn-dealer and a paparazzo - and also reveals the truly […]

When I’m not scratching away at my books, I occasionally write for the papers.
 
Last week, for instance, I witnessed one of the most dismal towns that I have ever visited in Britain: Blackburn, West Lothian.
 
Street after street of grey Sixties pebble-dash houses, and a handful of shops. God it’s depressing.
 
It’s the home of the Hairy […]

It’s coming up for the 35th anniversary of the day when Lord Lucan disappeared off the face of the earth.
 
The BBC has just made a documentary on the 7th Earl.You can see it here until November 1, 2009.
 
The BEEB also some new evidence. They have found a Harley Street plastic surgeon; the man who, in […]