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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: March 2008
The geek shall inherit the earth
You know what it’s like with those spam emails. They’re always too good to be true, offering sure-fire stock tips, extra inches without surgery and really cheap Viagra (that never arrives). At best you get annoying pop-ups; at worst a dead laptop. You don’t expect them to turn you into an spy. But that’s what happens to computer geek Chuck Bartowski when he opens an e-mail from an old college friend now working in (and dying for) the CIA, and …
Preaching to the converged
I used to run a web company whose unique selling point was ‘convergence’: the hot new idea that everyone in TV was talking about. ‘Convergence’ meant that, pretty soon, there’d be no difference between TV and internet: you’d watch it all through a single entertainment console in the corner of your room. It didn’t quite happen fast enough for our little company and I jumped ship to concentrate on my writing career. But today I think about convergence a lot. Because …
The mum of all fears
Any fan of the Terminator movies who didn’t suspend their disbelief realised that them pesky future robots could just keep sending Terminators back to kill John Connor’s ancestors. I personally always fancied a Terminator set in Henry James’s C19th New York high society with an Arniebot kicking in drawing room doors to hunt down John Connor’s great-grandfather whilst learning excruciatingly convoluted sentence structure: The Portrait of a Terminator. After the movie franchise ended with the lacklustre Terminator 3: Rise of the …
