Temporarily Significant

Here is some of the Tarot inspired artwork that my friend Bede has done for the upcoming website (which will be located here ). The website ...

If you love a good generalisation you can divide the people that work in the Film and Television Industry (1) into 4 main types: talent, dea...

The five of you who've read Genius Loci will know all about Pinky and Perky the two terraforming machines that play a small but crucial ...

I try, as best I can, to avoid buying books in hardback. It's not the price but the size and weight that deters me. Anyone who's tri...

I love 'The Mentalist' but fun as it is to watch Patrick Jane playing his mind games or sparring with Agent Lisbon I always find mys...

I recently read an interesting article about the importance of the first line of a book in getting you published. In the time honoured tra...

Some people, when writing urban fantasy, like to keep the magical aspects of their world low key and subtle. They aim for a certain understa...

Midnight Riot Ben Aaronovitch, Del Rey, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-52425-6 In this fast-paced paranormal police procedural, Aar...

When I first conceived the idea of an urban fantasy set in and around Covent Garden I did so secure in the knowledge that, if nothing else, ...

My new web site now has a holding page so at least people will know where it is. I'll add content over the next month so that hopefully...

I'm not actually sure this blog has any point but here it is all the same. Urban Fantasy(1), like horror with which it shares many trope...

Spent this morning freezing to death on Waterloo Bridge in aid of my fifteen minutes of fame. SFX sent a photographer in an attempt to secur...

Some time ago a German publisher bought the translation rights for Rivers of London/Midnight Riot and Moon Over Soho and since I signed the ...

This is a cunningly wrought retelling of the Arthurian myth set amongst the street gangs of Indianapolis (a city I'm afraid to say I had...

This is the US Cover for Moon Over Soho and Peter Grant is looking hard as nails.