I turned 65 yesterday. I’d have preferred to have turned back time. Until what age though, and would I know what I know now? That’s as bamboozling as one of those super-power questions – would you rather be invisible or be able to fly? It’s obvious that invisibility is the option, sneaking onto private planes and such you could fly anyway. BUT, once invisible would you be able to switch back at will, or would you be stuck being invisible until...

Filed by Fletcher Moody — Literary Correspondent This is the only dispatch I have ever filed in which I am the villain. In the early 1970s I was acquainted with a journalist named George Feifer, an American who had spent time in the Soviet Union and written a novel out of it called The Girl from Petrovka — the story of an American reporter and a Russian girl, and the machinery of the state that ground down everything between them. It was a good...

Hey everyone. This is a great review of my new book 'Family Man' from Into Creative. If you fancy checking out 'Family Man' I have attached a link to the book on Amazon. Plus a link to the 99p kindle offer currently running on my second book Who's Aldo. Having thoroughly enjoyed Colin Burnett’s first two books – A Working Class State of Mind (Pierpoint Press, 2021), and Who’s Aldo?, (Tippermuir Books, 2023) – I was very keen to begin on the last...

Doug Johnstone keeps things simple. Two word titles his specialities. Hurting and fucked up families, his mainstay And a protagonist that’s so fully formed her or him steps out of the pages and into your life. Here it’s Finn Sullivan. He’s idling a few hours at Kirkwald Airport in Orkney, which is small as a bedsit. Johnstone’s novels usually take place in Edinburgh or that nook of the world. But ‘Orkney was so stunningly beautiful, like God...

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di-hard Thank You so much for the fabulous writing posted this week. There are too many wonderful stories, in particular, to highlight them all, but as a sample if you haven't already, please check out the work of Eric Marsh, who is every day posting most enjoyable instalments in his Dragons' Lair stories for children, also Amandarella and the Haunted Mill. Here's a link to today's...

Hey everyone, This is the brilliant book review my new novel 'Family Man' received from Undiscovered Scotland. If you like the sound of the book why not bag yourself a copy? It's available from Amazon, Waterstones, Blackwells and many others. Also, for a short time there's a 99p kindle offer running on my second book Who's Aldo. I have included links at the end of the review. Thanks "Family Man: The Third Book of Aldo" by Colin Burnett is an...

Hey everyone. I've been so chuffed with reaction my new novel 'Family Man' has received. This is a book review from The Scotsman Newspaper. Like Many Scottish writers before him, Colin Burnett risks being mistaken for some kind of gritty social realist, simply because his Edinburgh stories are written in an edgy street Scots, and are often set against working-class backgrounds, from fortified pubs in Leith and Granton to grubby blocks of flats...

What's Up Docs? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002wxsx the podcast where identical twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken cut through the confusion around every aspect of our health and wellbeing. In this episode, Chris and Xand explore the lymphatic system, from its vital everyday functions supporting fluid balance and immunity to its more mysterious roles. They look at what happens when things go wrong, examine popular wellness claims...

Hey everyone, For a brief time the kindle version of my second book Who's Aldo is available for the bargain price of 99p. Why not bag yourself a bargain while you can. Cheers https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whos-Aldo-Colin-Burnett-ebook/dp/B0CQ8TVNTK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.LK-_-8xAS6oh9axEfXifniZJUbWzGccbza0Vmx67vQbGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.mhk7y1swNBHi54SuPbYmzeYCL0lduJ9McMDWJhhG9Gk&qid=1781698980&...

How many languages can you speak? Read and write in? I do a passable impression of English. That’s about it. Eliska Tanzer, birthplace was Drovane. She was brought up in a Romani ghetto in Slovakia. Therefore, she can speak Slovak and Romani. She learned the language of dance from her mother, Lenka, a prostitute but continued to fail to learn their family trade and couldn’t blow a banana. Franz Volker was East German before he was German. So...