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The Devil’s Coin.

July 10, 2019

I once worked in some kitchens where the very best chef was an Italian man named Sergio. I don’t know …

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The Last Ever Can of Irn-Bru in the World.

June 5, 2018

I went to visit Angus shortly after the twelfth referendum. NO had once again won by the slenderest of margins. …

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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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Bar Devils.

February 13, 2015

Tourist Review (20): (The auld) Kirk Alloway.

July 7, 2014

So this is it. The kirk where a passing Tam o’Shanter had paused to watch the witches’ ceilidh. I immediately …

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Meet the Author.

May 15, 2013

The party was already thinning when I arrived and the remaining partygoers looked up at me with sudden hope in …

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Tourist Review (13): The Glen Grant Distillery.

April 27, 2012

We’re on the road to the Glen Grant distillery. The passing hills and mountains bump the sky, as bare as …

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600 in the Club.

January 9, 2012

Interview with Yang Guang and Tian Tian.

December 13, 2011

[Scene: The Standing Order.] Tychy: So how much time will we have with them? James: They said that they would …

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Fishface.

June 7, 2011

Last summer, our website was approached by a Lithuanian entrepreneur who wanted to borrow our brains for a couple of …

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Supermoon.

April 2, 2011

[Dedicated to anybody who celebrated the recent Supermoon. There is more lunar fare on Tychy here and here. Ed.]

Bewitched in Lovers’ Loan.

March 16, 2011

The suburbs south of the Meadows have a Gothicism all of their own, deriving from a particularly Gothic conception of …

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Intervention.

January 12, 2011

I had been temping at the undertakers for several weeks before the head of the firm, Feliks, finally invited Renata …

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Letter from the Man in the Moon (2).

December 29, 2010

[#1 is here.] My dear Tychy. It has been over two years since you first hinted that your website would …

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The Devil On Your Back (5/7).

December 22, 2010

[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …

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