Writing is increasingly what I do. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do.
The big change came for me in October 2010, when my debut novel The English Monster was bought by Simon and Schuster. It comes out in 2012.
Over the years, I’ve done a fair bit of writing for various places (not including the random scribblings that appear on I’ve Said Too Much). My first printed thing (outside student journalism) was a book review in the Guardian in 1989. As a journalist, I worked for Financial Times Newsletters and for Baskerville Communications (which was subsequently absorbed into Informa). I also did freelance stuff for the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Evening Standard and the Guardian.
Since I’ve been working online, I’ve carried on doing quite a bit of writing. Here’s some stuff that’s appeared under the badge of people you might have heard of:
A not-entirely-serious look at the future of search
Crimes even lower at sunny Glastonbury
You don’t have to live like a refugee
Various bits and pieces from the 2004 Glastonbury festival
Reading Carter Beats the Devil a year too late
What does your bank say about you?
The house price forecast: squally
Talking rubbish 98% of the time
Let there be policy exclusions
If only you could turn back time
A little knowledge is a profitless thing
You’re a bleedin’ liability, you are
A series of columns badged as The Financial Hypochondriac
A family trip to Thorpe Park
A trip around France in a campervan
Why I love Stephen King
A guide to choosing a primary school, for the paranoid middle classes
All about England World Cup songs
Celebrating Soft Cell
