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Touchstone (3. All the Time in the World)
Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone... read more
Ghosts on the Moor
Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems... read more
Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Edinburgh 2007
After the unbelievable hassle of vlogging from the Cheltenham Screenwriters’ Festival, I vowed that the next one would be a nice, easy written blog. And as if by magic, the Edinburgh International Film Festival announced that its theme for 2007 would be ‘cinema and the written word’. So I set off to spend five days there, see lots of films, meet new and interesting people, and get it all down on my laptop as it happened. I’d had no intention …
Wouldn’t you just die without Mahler…
For once, I’m not writing about writing. A couple of things that happened over the last fortnight have made me want to write about that most perilously indefinable subject: music. And classical music at that. First off, I experienced a sudden reawakening of my desire to spend some time with Gustav Mahler, a composer whose universe I’ve inhabited, off and on, for the last 25 years. You’ve all done the same: you suddenly get a taste for a certain album …
