Otherwise known as Doctor Who and the Space Tories… I wrote this during lockdown, when my frustration with the government and it’s Hard Right, Brexiter agenda boiled over. Who better than the Third Doctor, to bring down a corrupt, xenophobic regime? PART...
This story first appeared in 2015’s unofficial, unauthorised, charity short story collection, ‘Temporal Logbook’ from Pencil Tip Publications. A laboured groan overpowered the freezing air, as though the night itself was struggling for breath. Away,...
Never meet your heroes, so the saying goes, lest they be found to have feet of clay. While I can’t comment on his feet, I am delighted that said warning does not extend to one of my own personal heroes: actor, musician and author Hugh Fraser. Growing up back in the...
We’ve been having a bit of fun this week, over on the Urbane Twitter feed, picking different leads to star in films (it’s fun for us, we don’t get out much). The rules are simple: pick your favourite Urbane Publications book, say who you’d like to see play the lead...
The flowers and the guns. What a wonderful, invocative picture; the peaceful protestors placing long stems into the weapons of the armed soldiers sent to supress them. It comes, of course, from Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution of November 1989; an astonishing event...
