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A Story While My Phone Charges.

March 6, 2019

I spent an energyless afternoon alone in my apartment, striding around the rooms and looking out of the windows. These …

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Great Goodness.

February 12, 2019

It was so early in the morning that the light seemed to sting like antiseptic. The boy detective was crossing …

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The Train.

January 16, 2019

After lunch they had all agreed to go for a walk. There was a large park – over eighty acres …

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Jaws Sprung.

December 19, 2018

When Amir woke that morning, the first thing that he did was to lie in his bedsheets and listen to …

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Army in Place.

October 13, 2018

There were seven McSweenies in all. By now, all of them were men – the youngest was twenty-one and the …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Working Class Hero.

August 21, 2018

There is considerable bemusement across the Fringe and it is of totally the wrong kind. The “funniest” joke of the …

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Introducing the Detective.

January 16, 2018

The house looked immediately like a stroke of mischief. It was from the late-Victorian period and so symmetrical that it …

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The Named Person Mysteries: The Case of the Teetotal Teenager.

March 8, 2016

[It has just occurred to me that there has never been, in the entire history of detective fiction, a detective …

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Up On The House.

January 27, 2016

Back in the drawing room, the man who was known to them as Upensky was gripping the carpet with both …

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Book Review: Weathering.

January 23, 2015

[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …

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Childermass.

December 22, 2014

On the floor a small envelope containing the unmistakable shape of a Christmas card was lying amongst the day’s flyers …

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Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (2/2).

October 31, 2014

INTRODUCTION and PART 1. I had wanted to sit back and be alone with the city for a while, doing …

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#Indyref Anguish: The Unnamed Wilderness.

September 16, 2014

On the 30th August, Hampshire police obtained a European arrest warrant for the parents of a severely ill five-year-old boy …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Barge Baby.

August 25, 2014

[The following contains spoilers.] Over at C Nova, Bricks & Mortar Theatre’s new play “Barge Baby,” which is written by …

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Wanderers They Knew Not Where (41).

April 18, 2014

… and how the little one of all, whose sports had hitherto broken the decorum of the scene, understood the …

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