Resolution is the No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. For most authors that would be a life-changing event. But Irvine Welsh is not like most authors. Or, rather, he is, in that he puts down words on a page, creates characters, such as former Detective Ray Lennox. Gives the the boy from a Leith housing scheme a girlfriend with a name that would have him smacking his lips and wanting a bite of Carmel, but still want her pudding. I know, terrible joke...

Chapter One - Write a very brief, publishable blurb on how you arrived at She, Over 40, Solo. These are the stories of the respondents to the questionnaire around being single over the age of 40 as a woman. Respondent 1: Donna, 44, Christian, who has 100% support from her family and has been single most of her life. I believe that sex was made for the intimacy of marriage. Most men (generally) want sex when dating, I blame the media for that,...

‘A murder that wasn’t a murder.’ That’s the tagline. A Rebecca Connolly mystery. I don’t think I’ve read any other in this series. I was pretty sure I’d figured out who the murdered that wasn’t the murderer was. Like the Brexit result, I was wrong. Small margins. Leave or Remain? I voted to Leave England but remain in Europe. Most of Scotland voted for the latter, but not the former. Very few, then or now, voted in the Tories. The moron’s moron...

I have just uploaded another story and I am so proud that I am still writing. I am not bragging just expressing my excitement that I am still able to write. Do I dare try a small novel next or keep with my short stories and songs? Any advice would be appreciated. I hope everyone is doing okay. You guys are amazing and let no one tell you different.

I know I have been quiet lately. I have just been on holiday for a while and not had any internet. I promise that even though I have been very busy visitng new places as well as old childhood memories, there has been a story written but its currently on paper and needs a little editing. Hopefully be on here tomorrow or sunday. As you may or may not know, I live in the uk up the nothern parts but it wasnt always so. I used to live a bit further...

Lionel Shriver (2024) Mania. I read a wee bit of this book. Not for me. Mania is a conceit. Ostensibly it’s about the policing of language in an Orwellian sense and thereby the policing of thought and behaviour. No one can be called dumb. Everyone needs to practice being a snowflake. Right-wing media love that idea they’re fighting for something bigger than the moron’s moron Trump and his vile worldview. This is shown in the opening pages of ALT...

Kris Kristofferson passed peacefully at home on Saturday, he was 88. Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose, nothing aint worth nothing, but its free. Feeling good was easy lord, good enough for me, good enough for me & Bobby McGee.

The Islanders and the Orb is a revised edition, extended by Calum MacLeod to cover the periods between 1995 and 2023. Hunter’s scholastic examination of the evolution of the Harris Tweed industry from the nineteenth century is enhanced by the afterword, which highlights its positive effect on the Islands. The new edition, like the old edition, is sponsored by the Harris Tweed Industry. You pay for what you get. ‘Tweel’ is defined in the Concise...

Fall is in the air…but not here in sunny FLA., here it is summer, summer, summer all the time, every day and somedays I feel like I’m trapped in a spin off of ‘Ground Hog Day’. Except for when a hurricane blows through, then it's like an epic disaster movie. I know most people would love this sand and sun lifestyle and most days I do too, but a recent trip back to my home state of New York made me homesick for the seasonal changes I grew up with...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2019) Fleishman is in Trouble. Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is in Trouble, is no trouble to read. It’s pretty much perfect. I’m pretty much tempted to leave it at that and let the book speak of itself. But I’ll say a bit more. No prologue. Just a one line invitation: ‘Summon your witnesses.’ Aeschylus. It begins at the beginning, of course, but in medias res , which is a fancy way of saying, in the middle of things...